RENÉ

DESCARTES'

MEDITATIONS

ON FIRST

PHILOSOPHY,

IN WHICH THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

AND THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL

ARE DEMONSTRATED.

original: "Renati Des-Cartes, Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in qua Dei existentia et animae immortalitas demonstratur." A woodcut printer's mark depicting a phoenix rising from flames inside an oval frame. The Latin motto "FOR ETERNITY ALONE" original: "Aeternitati Soli" is inscribed around the border. The oval is set within an ornate decorative frame with scrollwork. Below the oval is a monogram consisting of a '4' above the letter 'M' and the name 'MAXS'. Red ink circular library stamp on the left: Royal Library original: "Biblioth. Regia"

PARIS,

At the shop of Michel Soly, on Saint-Jacques Street, at the

sign of the Phoenix.

1641.

With Privilege, and the Approval of the Doctors.

original: "Cum Privilegio, & Approbatione Doctorum." This indicates the work had official royal permission to be printed and had been vetted by the theological faculty of the Sorbonne. Handwritten shelfmark in bottom left corner H. p. R. 693