An Entire Body of Philosophy, According to the Principles of the Famous Renate Des Cartes,

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VG, 1694, 1st English edition, 97 pls. In contemporary, boxed calf boards. Calf reback to style, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling, gilt title to red morocco label. Internally, frontis, [30], [7] pp - illustrations, [1], 403, [1], 1-92, 97-263 pp (but complete), 97 pls of 100? (number of plates varies from copy to copy - ESTC), board tips repaired, sm hole to fep, paper repair to A2, some marginal light damp staining, some offsetting to last few leaves, old ink number to fpd, sm binders label to epd. But a very clean, tight copy. (Folio, 219*337 mm). (ESTC R223323. Wing 950. Lowndes, 1333). A reissue of the 1694 edition with less printer details. Le Grand was a French Recollect and Cartesian philosopher. Born in Douai, Spanish Netherlands, he was attached at an early age to the English community of St. Bonaventure's convent there, and became a Franciscan Recollect friar, and taught philosophy and divinity. Sent on the English mission, he resided for many years in Oxfordshire, and in 1695 he was tutor in the family of Henry Fermor of Tusmore. His advocacy of Cartesianism met with strong resistance from Samuel Parker, who would become bishop of Oxford.[1] Towards the close of his life he engaged in sharp controversies on metaphysical topics with John Sergeant, a secular priest. At the twenty-third chapter of his order, assembled in London on 9 July 1693, he was elected provincial, and he held that office till his death on 9 August 1699. He lived a studious and retired life. He is noted for the effort he made to render the approach of Descartes more apparently scholastic, to improve its reception with traditionalists. (see Wiki)