SOREL (Charles). LA SCIENCE UNIVERSELLE. Paris, Toussainct Quinet, 1641. Two volumes in-4 on soft ivory vellum (contemporary binding). Vol. 1: portrait, 381 pp. including title, (1) p. privilege - Vol. 2: (6) pp. including title, (1) f. privilege, 551 pp. VERY RARE ORIGINAL EDITION of these 2 volumes. Complete with a fine copper-engraved PORTRAIT of the author by Michel l'Asne. A third and last volume, entitled "De l'usage et de la perfection de toutes les choses du monde. Troisième volume de la science universelle", which appeared in Paris the same year. ¶ Caillet, 10269 - Cioranescu, III-63376, who dissociates the first 2 volumes from the third, described under the number 63377.