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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.<br /> <br /> 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. W. B. for A. and J. Churchil, R. Sare, and J. Tonson unknown
1779WS0005<p>Rare first edition of the collected works of Blaise Pascal in 5 parts. Complete with all it's illustrations including one of the famous Pascaline.<br />Simple half leather bindings gold stamped title on spine golden filleting. Rubbing and some damages on covers and spines. Some foxing some wear on pages. Edges partly deckled. Only on Tome II loose front cover still connected to spine.<br /><br /></p><p><strong>If this book is temporarily unavailable I may be traveling and have paused my account.</strong></p><p><strong>Shown shipping rates are just an indication for tracked non-letterbox but small packages sent with Post NL. Rates may vary depending on where you live and the size and weight of the books. More shipping options UPS DHL are available please inquire with the seller.</strong></p><p>Rare première édition des œuvres complètes de Blaise Pascal en 5 tomes. Complet avec toutes ses illustrations dont une d'une Pascaline.<br />Reliure simple en demi-cuir titre estampé à l'or sur le dos filet doré. Frottements et quelques dommages sur les couvertures et les dos. Quelques rousseurs quelques traces d'usure sur les pages. Tome II: couverture détachée mais toujours reliée au dos voir photo.<br /><br /><strong>Attention ! Livres lourds. Des frais d'expédition spéciaux peuvent s'appliquer. Contactez le vendeur pour connaître les possibilités.</strong></p> Detune hardcover
1748456029Paris : G. Desprez ; P.G. Cavelier 1748. New Edition. Hardcover. Good copy only in the original full-leather boards with raised spine bands gilt-tooled in the compartments. Boards lightly scuffed with edges and raised bands rubbed; lacking spine label. Light damp-stain to some final pages with text remaining legible. Large contemporary inscription to flyleaf which has bled through and offset to facing leaf. Interior slightly dust-dulled and remaining tight. A very serviceable and internally well-preserved copy. Physical description; cxx 453 3 pages ; 17 cm. Notes; With a half-title. At foot of title: Avec approbation et privilège. Drophead title on page liii for La vie de M. Pascal écrite par Madame Perier sa soeur. Part-titles for: Discours sur les Pensées de M. Pascal page 298; by Mr. Du Bois de la Cour i.e. Jean Filleau de la Chaise and Discours sur les preuves des livres de Moise page 377. Subjects; Philosophy French - 17th century Apologetics - 17th century Religion - Philosophy. Paris : G. Desprez ; P.G. Cavelier hardcover
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
1779R320157770Chez Detune. 1779. In-8. Relié plein cuir. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos à nerfs, Intérieur acceptable. 425 pages + XII + 549 pages + 526 pages - contre plats jaspés - tranches rosées - titre, tomaison et caissons dorés sur le dos - dos à 5 nerfs - relié plein cuir - 2 photos disponibles.. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.05-XVIII ème siècle
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
174441714London: London. Printed by James Bettenham for the Author. 1744 1744. 8vo. 20cm in 2 volumes The Second English Edition xivlxiii228 & ii320pp. with 2 copper engraved frontis portraits by George Vertue several woodcut ornaments in the tex in contemporary full speckled calf real raised bands gilt decorations in the panels fading new dark crimson and orange labels original marbled endpapers incorporating an early hinge repair in both volumes wear on the edge a very good copy in contemporary eighteen century bindings Ho2.2. ~ First Edition of the Second English Translation of the 'Provincial Letters' by William Andrews and First Edition in English with the prefatory biography of Pascal by his sister pp i-lxiii. London. Printed by James Bettenham, for the Author. 1744 unknown
1744PSCePASC95London: James Bettenham 1744. 1744. 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 7 p.l. lxiii 228; 2 p.l. 320. 2 engraved frontis. portraits by George Vertue. Vol. I lacking A2 dedication to George Pitt Jun. several woodcut ornaments. contemporary calf rebacked & recornered covers worn internally fine & crisp. First Edition of the Second English Translation of the 'Provincial Letters' by William Andrews and First Edition in English of the prefatory biography of Pascal by his sister. Pascal's famous defence of Jansenism the seventeenth-century French ascetic movement of reform inside the Roman Catholic Church stands as a brilliant and noble defence of thought in religious faith. The author's first important ethical work and a classic of French prose it was composed following Pascal's removal in 1654 to Port Royal the monastery famous as the centre of the Jansenist movement. Written in response to the Jesuit attacks on Jansenism which culminated in the condemnation by the Sorbonne at the end of 1655 of Antoine Arnauld the leading light of Port Royal the Lettres were originally issued clandestinely in a series of eighteen separate parts between January 23 1656 and January 15 1657. Pascal's magnificent invective against the casuistical methods of argument employed by the Jesuits seriously weakened their position in France and was largely responsible for the traditional bad reputation which they still bear. The prefatory biography was written by Pascal's sister Jacqueline Perier who was a nun at Port Royal. "Pascal's counter-attack took the form of a brilliant exposure of the casuistical methods of argument employed by the Jesuits.His 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 the prose of Milton at its best." Printing and the Mind of Man NCBEL II 1525. Rothschild 35. F. London: James Bettenham, 1744. unknown
1779d033R.pascalHague: A la Haye chez Detune Libraire 1779. FRENCH TEXT. In volume one there is a STAIN to the top of the frontispeice which also affects nearby leaves including top of title page. Otherwise clean tight texts bound in likely contemporary full leather mottled calf.Decorated spines with raised bands and twin title labels gold on burgundy & green. Marbled endpapers and edges. Bookplate of William Spottiswoode in each volume. Plates in volumes 4 9 and 5 5. 14 plates in total. Books are in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age. . Hardback. VG. A la Haye, chez Detune, Libraire Hardcover
17422698Paris, David Fils, 1742 ; in-8 ; plein veau marbré, dos à nerfs décoré, pièce de titre grenat, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque) ; XVI pp., 458 pp., (5) ff. de table, (2) pp. (explication des parties de la machine pneumatique), (1) f. de privilège ; vignette de titre gravée par Duflos et 6 planches dépliantes.
177944986La Haye chez Detune 1779 5 volumes in-8, veau racin, plats encadrs de filets et roulettes pousss or, pices de titre et de tomaison mosaques en maroquin rouge sur les dos sans nerfs orns petits fers dors, roulette or sur les coupes; encadrements intrieurs orns d'une roulette pousse or, doublures et gardes de papier marbr, tranches lisses dores (reliures de l'poque).Premire dition collective en partie originale, illustre d'un portrait-frontispice de l'auteur et de figures mathmatiques tablies par l'abb Charles Bossut et graves sur 14 planches dpliantes.
179820219Paris Didot l'ainé et Imprimerie de la République, puis Impériale 1790 et An VI (1798) - 1813 5 volumes in-4 illustré.
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
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
1787H-210<p><em><strong>The increasingly scarce first French translation by Parraud </strong></em>of "The Bhagvat-Geeta or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon; in Eighteen Lectures" by Charles Wilkins in English published two years earlier in London in 1785.</p><p>Abbot Joseph Pascal Parraud Translator 1752-1832 Charles Wilkins Author 1749-1836. <em>Le Bhaguat-Geeta ou Dialogues de Kreeshna et d'Arjoon ; contenant un Précis de la Religion et de la Morale des Indiens. Traduit du sanscrit la langue sacrée des Brahmes en anglais par M. Charles Wilkins : et de l'anglais en français par M. Parraud de l'Académie des Arcades de Rome. A Londres et se trouve à Paris chez Buisson</em> <strong>1787 </strong>Octavo 6-CLXII pp. and 180 pages in contemporary binding.</p><p>The English translation of the Bhagavad Gita is the greatest accomplishment of notable Orientalist Wilkins founder of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Published by the East India Company in 1785 under the patronage of Governor General Warren Hastings this translation had a profound impact on some of the greatest Western intellectuals of the time including Carlyle and Emerson. Soon after efforts were underway to translate this extraordinary text into other languages this French translation being the pre-eminent of all. As a beautiful testament to skilled pre-Revolutionary French printing this edition by Parisian publisher Buisson bears the signatory hallmark and increasing importance of oriental religion specifically Hinduism within the literary minds of France.</p><p>The Bhagvat Geeta is part of the sixth book of the <em>Mahabharata</em> the great Indian epic. During the battle of Kurukshetra the Lord Krishna friend and charioteer of Arjun offers words of wisdom to the Pandava prince Arjun and this set of philosophical dialogues between them is a central text of Hinduism. The poem consists of 700 Sanskrit verses divided into 18 chapters here "lectures". In Hinduism Krishna is regarded as the human incarnation of God Vishnu. One may recall the famous Radha-Krishna love-songs and stories that form the bedrock of romantic literature in Sanskrit and other languages such as Maithili Bengali etc.</p><p><strong>Condition</strong>- In beautiful contemporary binding Pages are remarkably clean; a beautiful collector's copy in very good condition!</p> Buisson, Paris hardcover
177941493La Haye Dètune 1779. 8vo. Five very nice contemporary full mottled calf bindings with gilt title- and tome-labels to richly gilt backs triple gilt line-borders to boards and single gilt line-ornamentation to edges of boards. Marbled adges. Minor repairs to a few capitals but overall a very nice copy indeed. Internally very nice clean and fresh; printed on good paper. One leaf of volume one with neatly closed tear. Old owner's name to title-page of volume 5. Title-pages printed in red and black. With book-plates of Fritz Trieboe/Twilboe A. Gedeon and C. Rasch. Frontis-piece portrait 425 pp.; XII 549 pp. last leaf uncut an folded; VIII 526 pp.; VIII 456 pp. 9 engraved plates of which 8 are folded; VIII 462 pp. 5 folded engraved plates 1 p directions for the book binder. In all 14 engraved plates of which 13 are folded. <br/><br/><em>Scarce first edition of Pascal's collected works comprising much significant material printed for the first time as well as the second appearance of the announcement of Pascal's groundbreaking calculating machine the first edition privately printed of which from 1645 is impossibly scarce making this the earliest obtainable edition of the seminal text. "Pascal designed his first mechanical adding machine in 1642. He was not the first to design and construct a mechanical calculator." but in contrast to Schickard's accomplishments which were destined for a history of obscurity Pascal in contrast "constructed about fifty examples of his machine of which several are extant; and the machine was well known to the cognoscenti both through Pascal's own efforts he hoped to make a profit selling them and through Diderot's later description of it in the "Encyclopédie" 1751. In 1645 Pascal published an eighteen-page pamphlet - now extremely rare - describing his calculating machine. The pamphlet does not identify a place of printing or a printer's name so we may assume that Pascal himself paid for its printing. When we wrote this bibliography OCLC cited only two copies of this pamphlet in one French library and no copies and North America." The pamphlet was reprinted along with additional material in volume IV pp. 7-30 of the present "Oeuvres". The additional material consists of Pascal's 1650 letter to Queen Christina of Sweden; the privilege for its construction and sale issued in 1649 and published for the first time here ; and Diderot's description of it for the "Encyclopédie" along with two plates. Also of interest here is the reprint of Pascal's 1654 paper introducing his triangle of binominal coefficients Pascal's Triangle included in Volume V pages 1-54. Pascal's invention "predated the concepts of computation of the values of polynomial functions by differences." Lee 1995 538." Origins of Cyberspace No. 13. In the present edition the Pascal-Noël correspondence on the vacuum is also printed for the first time along with other pieces on the vacuum as well as his correspondence with Fermat and deRibeyre.Origins of Cyberspace: 13.Brunet: IV395; Tchemerzine: IX p78 f: "Les Oeuvres Scientifiques de Pascal sont recueillies dans l'édition des Oeuvres La Haye chez Detune libraire 1779. 5 vol. in 8. Titre rouge et noir. Publiée par l'Abbé Bossut. Les oeuvres scientifiques occupent les tomes IV et V." </em> hardcover
1779153032The Hague: Detune 1779. Collecting Pascal's published and unpublished work First collected edition of Pascal's works containing much significant material published here for the first time. Pascal is the towering figure among the European mathematicians of the mid 17th century. His achievements range from his celebrated calculating machine - the first to be produced commercially - to projective geometry the calculus of probabilities and indivisibles and to the study of infinitesimal problems. This edition was prepared by an important French disseminator of science and major contributor to scientific education Charles Bossut 1730-1814. His textbooks of engineering and physics were in use in France and - in translations - in other European countries up to the Empire. He also wrote the "Discours sur la vie & les ouvrages de Pascal" which takes up pages 3 to 119 of volume I of this edition. The first three volumes are devoted to Pascal's literary and philosophical writings the final two volumes to his scientific texts. For a detailed bibliographical analysis see René Taton's article in DSB. Among the scientific works appearing here for the first time are the famous Pascal-Noël correspondence on the vacuum the letter to Le Pailleur refuting Noël the preface to the treatise on the vacuum the only surviving fragment of his intended major treatise on the vacuum and his correspondence with Fermat and de Ribeyre. Also included are all of the Pascal texts relating to his invention of the calculating machine with two finely engraved plates depicting the mechanism Pascal's letter to Queen Christina Royal patents etc. which are virtually unobtainable in the originals. 5 vols octavo 199 x 127 mm. Titles printed in red and black with engraved portrait frontispiece 13 folding engraved plates 1 further plate usually folding here trimmed and single page woodcut vignettes woodcut tailpieces in the text. Contemporary calf red and black morocco labels gilt in compartments gilt rule border to covers marbled endpapers gilt edges. Some chipping and wear round extremities all joints and hinges intact contents clean bound without the 'Avis' leaf at the end of vol. V repaired closed tear at head of vol. III pp. 491/2 affecting text; a very good set. Maire pp. 11719; see DSB X 33042. unknown
