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Cassirer, Ernst: Descartes. Lehre - Persönlichkeit - Wirkung.

 

Stockholm: Bermann-Fischer Verlag, 1939. 8vo. 308 pp.

 

Publisher's gilt-stamped black cloth, printed dustjacket (with a few insignificant, short tears).

 

Inscribed by the author on half-title: “Professor Curt Weibull, dem ersten Anreger und dem steten Förderer meiner Descartes - Christina - Studien, mit herzlichem Dank überreicht. 26. 6. 39. Ernst Cassirer” (”Professor Curt Weibull, the first inspirer and constant supporter of my Descartes-Christina-studies”).

 

First edition of this work about Descartes' influence on the Swedish queen Christina and her conversion to Catholicism. An exceptional association copy: Curt Weibull was professor of history at Göteborgs högskola and the author of an important monograph about Queen Christina, Drottning Christina (1931). In 1940 Cassirer dedicated his book ”Drottning Christina och Descartes” to Weibull.

Cassirer: Descartes, inscribed

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