This copy without the Meditationes 'Ces trois parties, orinairement réunies en un volume, sont précédées de 2 ff. (faux titre et portrait de Descartes). Le faux titre porte: Renati Descartes Opera philosophica. Editio quinta, nunc demum hac editione diligenter recognita, et mendis expurgata. C'est la cinquième édition des Oeuvres philosophiques de Descartes'. A. Willems. Les Elzevier. Histoire et annales typographique. Bruxelles, 1880. p. 376, 1469. 'The compilation of Descartes' texts into the 'Opera Philosophica' is an interesting phenomenon in the publishing history of the works of Descartes. From 1650 on Louis Elzevier started to sell the 'Meditationes', the 'Principia', 'Specimina' and the 'Passiones' as one set with the general title: 'Opera Philosophica'. Opera editions were published in 1650, 1656, 1663-4, 1670-72 and 1677-78. Whereas the Principia, Specimina and the Passiones were printed in the same year and are usually bound together, the Meditationes are the odd one out. They were published one or two years before the rest of the set (...). As a result the Meditationes were often bound separately, which make it hard nowadays to recognise whether a single volume of the Meditationes once was-or possible still is-part of a set of the Opera Philosophica. The portrait of Descartes in this volume is the same as in the third Elzevier edition of 1654-56. Fifth state as in the Elzevier edition of 1677-78 M. van Otegem. A bibliography of the works of Descartes (1637-1704. Utrecht, 2002, 2, p. 680 en pp. 692-94. Principia philosophiae 1685. Latest corrected edition. Van Otegem, 1, 287. Specimina philosophiae: seu Dissertatio de Methodo (Dioptrice, et Meteora) 1685. Translated from the French (E. de Courcelles?). Corrected edition. Van Otegem, 1, 66 Passiones animae 1685. Translated out of the French into Latin H.D.M.J.U.L. (H. Maresius). The same as the Latin edition of 1656. Van Otegem, 1, 389 The last 4 pages of the book with text in old handwriting