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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
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
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
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
192270920Paris:: Jean Fort. Very Good. 1922. Paperback. Text is in French. The author's first book. Frontispiece and illustration s by Martin Van Maèle. Preface by Andre Salmon. First edition paperback . Joseph T. Shipley's copy with his book-plate on the verso of the front free endpaper. One inch tear at the crown of the spine moderate shelf wear and age toning to covers else very good in printed wraps. Rare.; 235 pages . Jean Fort, paperback books
19321294Paris: Éditions d'Art Jou et Bosviel 1932. Copy # 4 of 25 copies on Chine pur műrier imprinted with the name of M. Louis Barthou.entire edition 240: 25 on chine. The edition de tęte as this 25 on Japon 25 further on Japon Imperial; 150 on arches; 15 HC. 8vo. Full maroon morocco tastefully line in gilt smooth back with title in gilt. By Marot-Rodde. With prospectus at end. Bookplate of Louis Barthou. Matching morocco tipped open slipcase. Fine copy. <br/><br/> The essays by Pascal with decorations by Louis Jou and a new typeface set by atelier du Vieux Colombier. <br/><br/> Provenance: Jean Louis Barthou was a French politician of the Third Republic who served as Prime Minister of France for eight months in 1913. Born: August 25 1862 Oloron-Sainte-Marie France Assassinated: October 9 1934 during his duties as Foreign Minister. Éditions d'Art Jou et Bosviel unknown books
165766919"The first example of French prose as we know it today"óPMM PASCAL Blaise. Les Provinciales: Or The Mysterie of Jesuitisme. Discover'd in certain Letters Written upon occasion of the present differences of Sorbonne between the Jansenists and the Molinists from January 1656 to March 1657. S.N. Displaying the corrupt Maximes and Politicks of that Society. Faithfully rendred into English. London: Printed by J.G. for R. Royston 1657. First edition in English first printed in French at Cologne in 1656-7. Twelvemo. 24 409 1 blank 6 pp. With preliminary blank a post-script leaf referring to the seventeenth letter and two final leaves of errata and advertisements. Added engraved title-page by Robert Vaughan. Eighteenth-century paneled calf neatly rebacked retaining old morocco lettering label. Spine lettered in gilt with decorative gilt board-edges. Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate of John Hustler of Acklam mounted on verso of engraved title-page. Early ink notations at bottom of engraved title-page. Leaves Q thru Q12 have been affected by printer's ink mostly just a little smudging; verso of Q10 is the only page where two lines of text have been affected. Apart from the few flaws this is a fine copy of a very rare and famous work. This work is a series of eighteen letters in which "Pascal defended Arnauld and satirized his Jesuit opponents and their theological and moral views. The work was published under the pseudonym Louis de Montalte and were probably the cooperative work of Pascal Arnauld and Pierre Nicole though they were principally Pascal" Edwards P. The Encyclopedia of Philosophy p. 52. Les Provinciales is considered one of the great French literary masterpieces and the first example of French prose. No translator's name ever appeared in any of the English editions and to this day the translator remains unknown. There is however a strong possibility that the work might have been translated by Evelyn. In 1664 a third volume on Jesuitisme appeared and the translation was fully acknowledged by Evelyn. In his diaries he writes: "This day was publish'd by me that part of the Mysterie of Jesuitism translated and collected by me tho' without my name containing the Imaginarie Heresy with 4 letters and other pieces.Evelyn included the book in the list of his works sent to Dr. Plot and though he did not refer to it again in his Diary his interest in the subject remained very active" Keynes John Evelyn pp. 124-126. Printing and the Mind of Man 140. Wing P643. HBS 66919. $2000 Printed by J.G. for R. Royston 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
165728515"Cologne" i.e. Paris: Chés Pierre de la Vallée 1657. First edition first issue the 18 separate letters plus the refutation bound together. 23.7 x 17.5 cm. Letters 1-15 have 8 pages; 16-18 have 12 pages. "Refutation de la reponse a la douziéme lettre" bound before the 12th letter. Full brown morocco gilt a.e.g. by Riviere. Small chip at the top of the spine; joints neatly repaired edges lightly rubbed; former owners' signature and bookplate. Fifth letter lightly browned; small hole repaired with loss of a few letters on 18:7/8. First state of advertisement leaf with spelling"advertisement". "These letters were originally issued clandestinely in eighteen parts as a series of separate publications by a variety of different printers between 23 January 1656 and 15 January 1657. No detailed or authoritative information on these separate issues is available" PMM. "The Lettres Provinciales as they are called are the first example of French prose as we know it today perfectly finished in form varied in style and on a subject of universal importance.Pascal was an infant prodigy whose work in mathematics and natural science attracted considerable attention before he was sixteen. But he will always be chiefly remembered as a moralist more especially as the great apologist for Jansenism the seventeenth-century French ascetic movement of reform inside the Roman Catholic Church.At the end of 1655 the movement had been much under attack from the Jesuits and Pascal was persuaded to write a rejoinder.his counter-attack took the form of a brilliant exposure of the casuistical methods of argument employed by the Jesuits.Pascal's weapon was irony and the freshness with which the gravity of the subject contrasts with the lightness of the manner is an enduring triumph. The vividness and distinction of his style recalls Milton at its best." Printing and the Mind of Man 140. <br/><br/> Chés Pierre de la Vallée unknown books
167054474Paris: Guillaume Desprez 1670. First edition second issue the first issue of 1669 - virtually unobtainable - is known by 2 copies only both in France; 12mo pp. 82 365 21; printer's device on title page engraved headpiece woodcut ornaments; 19th-century full brown levant by the Paris binder Trautz-Bauzonnet gilt-lettering direct on spine gilt turn-ins a.e.g.; very lightly scuffed else fine. Blaise Pascal 1623-1662 was a French mathematician physicist and religious philosopher. He laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities formulated what came to be known as Pascal's principle of pressure and propagated a religious doctrine that taught the experience of God through the heart rather than through reason. The subject of endless controversy these fragmentary meditations on faith and reason influenced generations of thinkers both sceptics and believers alike making this work a fundamental text in the history of western thought and literature. Printing and the Mind of Man 152; Brunet IV 398;. <br/><br/> Guillaume Desprez unknown books
