DILLY, Antoine. Traitte de L'ame et de la connoissance des betes. (1691 - FIRST EDITION)

AUTHOR: DILLY, Antoine. 

TITLE: Traitte de L'ame et de la connoissance des betes [...] suivant les principes de Descartes.

PUBLISHER: Amsterdam: Chez George Gallet, 1691.

DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION. 1 vol., (xii)276pp., 5-3/16" x 3", with the engraved frontis, title-page printed in red and black, bound in fine contemporary French marbled tan calf over cords, gilt decorated spine, gilt lettered red morocco spine label, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, textblock edges tinted red.

CONDITION: Internally clean and bright, a VERY GOOD copy.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Bibliotheca Esotherica, 5695: "This book is the only published work of an obscure Jesuit priest who died in the year of its publication. Realizing that his hypothesis about animals was a corollary of the Cartesian dichotomy, Dilly reproached Descartes for not having stressed sufficiently the dangerous consequences of the non-automatist view. Nonetheless he lauded Descartes for originating the theory of the beast-machine (See Rosenfeld's "From Beast-Machine to Man-Machine", 269-275).