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Small quarto: [viii] including half-title, 261 pp., 13 folding diagrams; scattered foxing and some light water-staining. Contemporary vellum, a little soiled. The third part only of the first collected edition of Hobbes' works - comprising Computatio sive Logica, Philosophia Prima, De Rationibus Motuum & Magnitudinum, Physica sive Naturae Phaenomenae. Macdonald & Hargreaves 104.

De Corpore is another of Hobbes' important works published in 1655. It is part of his series of works aimed at establishing a philosophical framework for the study of natural and civil philosophy.