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18591328204New York: Derby & Jackson 1859. Hardcover. Octavo; G/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine brown with gold print on green banner raised bands; Boards half bound with brown leather to spine and corners and marbled paper to boards wear to leather hinges raised bands spine caps corners edges shelfwear to paper; Text block has marbled edges bookplate on front pastedown label removed from inside front flyleaf cracked front hinge spine break at p. 168 penciled name on title page and inside rear flyleaf; 470 pages. 1328204. FP New Rockville Stock. Derby & Jackson hardcover books
184619626Paris: Andrieux 1846. 8vo. 72 pp.; fold. leaf. <br><br>Newly discovered manuscript; and the last will of Pascal. 19th-century German boards covered with black mottled paper; respined with black cloth tape. Ex-library with bookplate and call number in pencil on verso of title-page. Front cover with paper shelf label call number blacked out. Spots of foxing on several pages. Scrape costing a portion of a dozen letters to half-title. Andrieux hardcover books
185951537bdNew York: Derby & Jackson 1859. Together two volumes. Octavo half-calf & marbled boards hardcover leather calf labels marbled endpapers all edges marbled 470 pp 552 pp. Near-Fine; light scuffing. Set of two volumes will require some additional shipping for overseas or international orders. Derby & Jackson, 1859. hardcover books
1877D7094Paris: Alphonse Lemerre 1877. Hardcover. Very Good. Bright purple paper over boards backed in Japanese vellum gilt-stamped lettering in purple spine label; complete set of 2 volumes 8vo 128 x 198 mm; pp. 4 lxxxiii 1 326 plus frontispiece facsimile holograph; 8 420 1; both volumes with original printed wraps bound in and including original backstrip. Boards rubbed; tiny chips in spine labels and at corners; front boards of Volume 1 just a little loose; some faint foxing here and there. A nice set. <br/><br/> Alphonse Lemerre hardcover books
18161245757London: Gale and Fenner 1816. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo in burgundy cloth hardcovers with gold letters on black frame; VG; moderate soiling and fraying on boards; binding strong; deckle external edges dusty; paper heavily woven with some foxing; text clean; title page dusty; first pages loose; contains a "A View of the History of the Jesuits and the Late Bull for the Revival of the Order in Europe"; pp. 383; <br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office in bookcases next to Ephemera section. 1245757. FP New Rockville Stock. Gale and Fenner hardcover books
18302305836Paris: Armand-Aubree 1830. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Boards lightly rubbed lightly foxed throughout. 1830 Full-Leather. xxiii 424; 416 33 3 pp. 8vo. French text. Full leather gilt and blind stamped decorations gilt titles on morocco spine labels marbled edges and endpapers. A collection of letters by the author of Pensees most notable for their attack on casuistry a common rhetorical method at the time especially among Jesuits who Pascal specifically condemns for their lax morals. These later influenced the writings of Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The second volume includes his famous Pensees along with Bordas Demoulin's Eloge. Armand-Aubree hardcover books
187728042Paris: Alphonse Lemerre 1877. 2 vols. 8vo pp. 4 lxxxiii 1 326 1; 4 420 1; engraved frontispiece portrait in vol. I vignette title-pp. 1 page of Pascal's facsimile handwriting woodcut initials and ornaments original printed wrappers bound in at the back; contemporary quarter brown morocco over marbled boards t.e.g. the others uncut; some scuffing of the spines else very good and sound. There is also an issue of twenty-five copies printed on Whatman paper. <br/><br/> Alphonse Lemerre hardcover books
182965212Amherst Mass: Published by J. S. and C. Adams 1829. First American edition. Translated from an 1819 Paris edition of the "Pensées." The first attempt at the collection of the "Pensées" was in 1670. the first edition in English was the translation by Joseph Walker and published in 1688. 304 pp. 12mo. Contemporary cloth-backed brown boards. New labels some rubbing and wear to binding some spotting and browning of text generally light small tears on title from partial removal of a signature. In a leather tipped brown cloth open end case. First American edition. Translated from an 1819 Paris edition of the "Pensées." The first attempt at the collection of the "Pensées" was in 1670. the first edition in English was the translation by Joseph Walker and published in 1688. 304 pp. 12mo. Craig's edition includes most of the "Pensées" with exceptions of those pieces relating to the Catholic church which he felt inadequate to translate and those pieces that did not relate to religion. "The work is notable for its acute analysis of human character for many striking sayings and for its combination of powerful and persuasive reasoning with passionate devotion" Oxford Companion. American Imprints 39971 Published by J. S. and C. Adams unknown books
181925219Paris: Lefevre "de l'imprimerie de Crapelet 1819. Nouvelle edition augmentée. Engraved frontispiece portrait. 2 vols. 8vo. Quarter brown morocco and maroon paper boards covers a little scuffed gilt spines. Very pleasantly produced set in an attractive binding. Nouvelle edition augmentée. Engraved frontispiece portrait. 2 vols. 8vo. Lefevre, "de l'imprimerie de Crapelet unknown books
18424992México: Impr. de Luis Abadiano y Valdes 1842. Small 4to. 16 pp. <br><br>Will Pascal ever be admitted to the libraries of devout Roman Catholics The author of this extended essay who styles himself "Un Leonés" and who signs himself with the initials "J.I.A." cautions a supposed subscriber to a new edition of Pascal's letters that they are riddled with Jansenist heresy and that the pope still prohibits the devout from reading them. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Sutro 756 "19p." being a typographical error for collation given here; not in Steele Independent Mexico: A Collection of Mexican Pamphlets in the Bodleian Library. Folded and never sewn or bound; as issued. Impr. de Luis Abadiano y Valdes unknown books
182828241New York: Published by J. Leavitt Boston: Crocker & Brewster Vanderpool and Cole Printers 1828. First American edition and the first work by Pascal published in America. This translation first published in London in 1816. xii 13-319 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original purple cloth-backed boards printed paper label with title and publisher's name uncut. Cloth frayed and discolored some rubbing of binding with gift label on pastedown of Library of the Social Union gift of Daniel A. Hayes 1828 signature present purchase notation from library on free endpaper by Charles Dealano by purchase from Soc. Mission Soc. June 1846 some spotting and browning upper margin of free endpaper torn away else a very good copy. First American edition and the first work by Pascal published in America. This translation first published in London in 1816. xii 13-319 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Attacking the Jesuits. Reponding to attacks of the Jesuits on the Jansenists and especially on Antoine Arnauld Pascal wrote this very effective defence and counter-attack on the code of ethics of the Jesuits. It was very popular and placed on the "Index" in 1660.<br/>Anti-Catholic sentiment in America was strengthened in the 1820's encouraged by the dis-information disseminated by the British anti-Catholics fighting the Catholic Emancipation Act 1829 and the repeal of the Test Act 1828 and aggravated by the increase of Catholic immigrants. The "Nativist" groups who throughout American history had directed much of their antagonism towards the Roman Catholics established groups like the American "Know-Nothing" Party and the "No-Popery" movement. S & S 34652 Published by J. Leavitt, Boston: Crocker & Brewster [Vanderpool and Cole, Printers] unknown books
1885404983London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co 1885. Some very light wear to binding some light spotting at beginning and end generally a very good or better copy. 8vo 245 x 165 mm; 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Title printed in red and black. 362 1 pages. Engraved portrait frontispiece by Goupil & Co. Contemporary green half morocco top edges gilt others untrimmed and unopened silk page marker. LIMITED ISSUE number 21 of 50 large-paper copies signed by Charles Whittingham Co. <br/><br/> Kegan Paul, Trench & Co unknown books
188036797Istanbul 1880. Oblong 8vo. 6 x 7 3/4 inches. 10 albumen photographs mounted on thick card and bound in concertina folds as issued length 70 inches. Occasional spotting. Publisher's red grained cloth upper cover tooled in gilt and lettered in French and Arabic.<br/> <br/>A smaller version probably published at the same time of "Panorama de Constantinople pris de la Tour de Galata."<br/> <br/>A photographic panorama offering a sweeping view of the city walls and seven towers the great mosques of Sultan Ahmed and Santa Sophia the 'Green Mosque' and Mosque of Oulon the Golden Horn tower of Galatea and the Bosphorus. unknown books