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1754WRCLIT66722Paris 1754. lxxxii336pp. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf gilt label. Spine extremities and foretips worn but sound otherwise a very good copy. "Nouvelle Edition" with an abridged life of Pascal and history of the Lettres by Laurent Etienne Rondet. unknown books
1752044020Clermont en-Auvergne: Les Freres Lefranc 1752. Later Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Full contemporary leather worn at corners and spine ends hinges cracked spine worn dry and degraded binding still sound. Attractive armorial crest on the front board still mostly intact. A few minor paper flaws a few wormholes early on the the margin but mostly clean and bright internally. A nice little edition of Pascal's influential letters.448pp. Size: duodecimo 12mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Philosophy; Religion & Theology. Inventory No: 044020. <br/><br/> Les Freres Lefranc hardcover books
17832305751Paris: Chez Nyon l'aine Libraire 1783. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. Front free endpaper removed two owner bookplates on front paste-down ink number on title page. 1783 Full-Leather. cxii 475 pp. 12mo. French text. Original full tree calf gilt titles and decorations burgundy morocco spine label. "Blaise Pascal the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes was a gifted mathematician and physicist but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. "The Pensees" is a collection of philosophical fragments notes and essays in which Pascal explores the contradictions of human nature in psychological social metaphysical and - above all - theological terms. Mankind emerges from Pascal's analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within an impersonal universe but who can be transformed through faith in God's grace. Chez Nyon, l'aine, Libraire unknown books
171511786Paris: Guillaume Desprez and Jean Desessartz 1715. Full leather. Very Good -. The 1715 "nouvelle edition' in its original full leather. 5 raised bands gilt-tooled compartments. Spine label missing a bit of chipping at the spine ends and very light cracking of the leather along the panels. Interior very clean with bright crisp pages and lovely marbled endpapers. No writing or markings to speak of. A solid well-preserved copy especially impressive given its age. 64mo 371 pgs. plus "Privilege du Roi" at the rear. <br/><br/> Guillaume Desprez and Jean Desessartz hardcover books
1754267888S.l.: s.n. 1754. Nouvelle edition. lxxxij 8 336 pp. 12mo. Later full tan calf spine in gilt comb-marbled endpapers and edges. Fine. Nouvelle edition. lxxxij 8 336 pp. 12mo. s.n. unknown books
1704403595London: W. B. for A. and J. Churchil R. Sare and J. Tonson 1704. 8vo 177 x 113 mm. Translated from the French into English by Basil Kenet 1674-1715. 1 lviii 12 392 pp. 2-leaf manuscript index at end wear at edges. 18th-century half calf marbled boards smooth spine gilt red morocco lettering-piece. Light wear at extremities rear hinge cracked some modest surface cracking along spine generally handsome. Provenance: David Rockfort signatures on title; armorial bookplate; Dale Raymond Bengtson bookplate. Second English translation following Joseph Walker's version of 1688. ESTC T144329. Bound with: STACKHOUSE Thomas 1677-1752. A Fair State of the Controversy between Mr. Woolston and his Adversaries. London: Edward Symon 1730. 8vo. xv 295 13 pp. With reference to the six discourses on the miracles of our Saviour by Thomas Woolston. ESTC T107869. <br/><br/> W. B. for A. and J. Churchil, R. Sare, and J. Tonson hardcover books
173427243Amsterdam: Aux depens de la Compagnie 1734; Cologne: Pierre de la Vallée 1739. 12mo 15.8 cm 6.25". 4 vols. I: Frontis. 14 404 pp. II: Frontis. 10 378 pp. III: Frontis. 10 372 pp. IV: 8 539 13 pp. <br><br>Pascal's pseudonymously published Provinciales an elegantly composed widely read defense of Antoine Arnauld and of Jansenism against Jesuit opponents. First printed in 1657 the work appears here along with the notes by Guillaume Wendrock a.k.a. Pierre Nicole translated from Latin into French.<br>Â Â Â Â The first three volumes were printed in Amsterdam in 1734 and each opens with an engraved frontispiece; the fourth volume was printed in Cologne in 1739. All four volumes have title-pages printed in red and black with the fourth specifying that Nicole's notes were translated by Mademoiselle de Joncourt.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: All four title-pages with small early inked ownership inscription in upper outer corner of "A. Thorpe York. Period-style quarter mottled calf and marbled papercovered sides spines with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels and gilt-stamped compartment decorations. Vols. I and II with frontispiece rectos institutionally rubber-stamped with bleed-through into images; ownership inscriptions as above. Pages clean. Aux depens de la Compagnie hardcover books
17542414Paris 1754. 8vo 157 x 105 mm. 70 pages. Calligraphic title signed and dated by the scribe. Text in a neat italic script in dark brown ink 14-15 lines first lines of headings and initials in red ink faded thick and thin rule page borders throughout. A few additions or corrections. Some dust-soiling small stains in gutters of first 4 leaves. Contemporary mottled calf gilt edges broken defective. Provenance: Jean de St. Haond signature on title; given in 1759 to a female relative when she took her vows: inscription on front flyleaf "Ce livre est a l'usage de la Soeur Saint Haon qui est entrer sic aux sic Couvent pour etre religieuse le 6 mars mille sept cent cinq quante neuf âgée de dix neuf ans" This book is for the use of Sister Saint Haon who entered the Convent to become a nun on March 6 1759 at the age of 19.<br/><br/>A gift upon taking the veil: this manuscript copy of Pascal's prayer for the sick to accept their fate as the will of god was written by a young boy or adolescent for his father and given to a female relative of the same name no doubt his sister upon her entry into a convent. <br/><br/>Following his youthful achievements in mathematics and physics Pascal turned his energies exclusively to philosophy and theology. He suffered from poor health throughout his short life and died aged 39 in 1662. This prayer for the right attitude toward illness was probably written in 1660. By then seriously ill Pascal had begun rejecting the prescriptions of his doctors affirming that "sickness is the natural state of the Christian." The piece was first published posthumously in Divers traitez de pieté Cologne i.e. Paris 1666. <br/> <br/>Jean de Saint Haond or Sainthaond wrote this manuscript for his father probably as a devoir or assignment. In the three-page dedicatory epistle the scribe writes of his filial duty and joy at being able to fulfill his father's request for a transcription of the prayer. While the handwriting is neat he not yet mastered the spacing: many line endings run into or overlap the right-hand page border and in seven instances words or word endings had to be inserted at the bottom of the page in the position usually occupied by catchwords. Saint Haond added at the end a nine-page "General prayer regarding salvation" Oraison universelle pour tout ce qui regarde le salut. <br/><br/>Five years later Mlle now Sister Saint Haond came into possession of the manuscript upon taking her vows. She clearly lacked her brother's education: assuming that the inscription to that effect is in her hand her orthography and grammar were a bit shaky. While I have not succeeded in identifying the individuals the family name of Saint Haond or Sainthaond is associated with the upper Loire region where there remains a hamlet of that name. unknown books
1778263100London 1778. hardcover. very good. Nouvelle Edition Commente corrigee & augmentee en III Parties. Part I 59 pages part II 95 pp part III 104pp.; 15 page "Discours" by Montesque. Bound along with. THOMAS Eloge de Marc-Aurele. 59 pages. Amsterdam: Moutard 1775. Also bound with SOCRATE Eloge de Socrate; Prononce dans Une Societe de Philanthropes. 8vo marbled edges full vellum worn. Yverdon: Societe Litter 1777. Very good.<br/><br/> unknown books