Gassendi, Pierre. De vita et moribus Epicuri. Editio altera auctior & correctior. V S., 2 Bl., 167 pp., 4 Bl. Title in red and black. 20 x 15 cm. Newer half-perch band with RTitel. The Hague, Adriaan Vlacq, 1656. Cf. Ziegenfuß I, 377. – Second printing of the influential biography, first published in 1647, in which the French theologian Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) refutes the defamations that have existed since antiquity over the life of the philosopher and provides the foundation of the epicuric atomic theory. – The stinged frontispiece is missing. At the end with faded moisture edge, otherwise beautiful and well preserved.