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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
720220 pp. 8vo 198 x 125 mm. modern aubergine cloth head of spine a little worn title on upper cover. Paris: Félix & Regnault-Delalande 1822. An extremely rare auction catalogue inventorying the collection of an obscure painter active at the turn of the century. A contemporary annotator has written in the surname for this anonymous sale on the title-page corroborating Lugt's attribution. An 1817 almanac of Paris records a painter with the same surname working at rue de Rohan 6. Viglianis also exhibited a landscape at the 1814 Salon - no. 948 in the exhibition livret. 184 lots consisting primarily of prints lots 1-132 by artists such as Bartolozzi Bervic Bloemaert Cochin Le Bas Desnoyers Earlom Green Ingouf Massard Morghen Strange Wille Woollett etc. We then find original engraved plates by a number of contemporary artists. The final section of drawings includes the work of Bruandet S. Gessner H. Robert and "Joseph Pascal Viglianis" presumably the seller. With the list of vacations on the final page. A very rare catalogue in fine condition. In the characteristic binding of the Bibliothèque Heim. ❧ Lugt 10220. hardcover books
1671263441Paris: Guillaume Desprez 1671. Third. hardcover. very good. Some engraved ornaments initials and headers throughout. 78 348 20; 6 214 2 pages. Thick 12mo full contemporary calf with gilt-decorated spine; both joints repaired with some minor loss of leather at spine ends. Paris: Guillaume Desprez 1671/1672. Troisieme edition. Some minor scattered soiling in margins but overall a very good copy in a repaired binding.<br/><br/> Guillaume Desprez 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
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
190822024.1Paris: Librairie de la Construction Moderne 1908. 4th edition. Hardbound. VG. 4 vols. 1/2 red leather with marbled boards and 5 raised bands gilt letters on spine marbled flyleaves. 662 pp. 614 pp. 738 pp. 756 pp. at least 1887 figures and illustrations throughout the text; set weighs 17 lbs. Text is in French. A stunning four-volume set of this massive compendium on architectural theory penned by noted French architect Julien Guadet 1834-1908. With an introduction by Jean-Louis Pascal. Volume 1 contains The preparatory studies; General principles; Eléments of architecture. Volume 2 contains The elements of the composition in the dwelling and in the structures; teaching and public instruction. In the political administrative structures judicial jails; In the hospital structures in the public structures. Volume 3 contains The elements of the composition in the religious structures. Volume 4 contains elements of architectural composition in commemorative buildings and decorations along public roads. Really 8 volumes of text bound in 4. Vastly illustrated with many line drawings and floor plans. An invaluable reference and in terrific shape too! Librairie de la Construction Moderne hardcover books
1683262769Paris: Guillaume Desprez 1683. hardcover. very good. Some woodcut ornaments and initials throughout. 54 356 20; 4 143 19 pages. Thick 12mo full contemporary polished leather with gilt-decorated spine lightly worn with loss of leather at spine ends. Paris: Guillaume Desprez 1683. Nouvelle edition. A clean tight very good copy<br/><br/> Guillaume Desprez unknown books
1967152429New York: 101 Productions 1967. First Draft script for an unproduced musical with book by "John and Fran Pascal" who co-wrote the book of the 1968 musical "George M!" with Michael Stewart music by pianist and arranger Milton Kaye and lyrics by composer lyricist and performer Michael Brown. Single annotation in holograph pencil of "Sandy Farber" above 101 Productions on title page.<br/><br/>From the estate of actress Monique van Vooren. <br/><br/>An absurdist political comic musical taking place in 1875 Egypt at the fictitious "International Alliance for Prosperity and Perpetual Peace" a hypothetical precursor to the United Nations set in the summer palace in Suez.<br/><br/>Red titled Studio Duplicating Services wrappers. Title page present dated October 1967 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for Book by John and Fran Pascal Music by Milton Kaye and Lyrics by Michael Brown. 75 leaves with last page of text numbered 2-5-26. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with closed tears and chipping at extremities and splitting at spine bound with two gold brads. 101 Productions 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
190634101Paris: Bibliothéque-Charpentier 1906. 1 vols. 8vo. Full brown crushed levant morocco triple gilt fillet borders on covers elaborately gilt floral spine in 6 compartments a.e.g. delicately gilt turn-ins by Riviere. Front hinge just a little tender else about fine. 1 vols. 8vo. Bibliothéque-Charpentier 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
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
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
1990427641Maeght editeur 1990. Soft Cover. Very Good. Eight volume set. 8vo. Burgundy wraps with slipcase. Text in French. Publisher's card tipped in to front of first volume. A touch of sun-fading to spines. Slipcase with some bumps and fraying at the edges and shelfwear. Near fine in a very good slipcase. Maeght editeur paperback books
2004185016New York: Kilima House Publishers 2004. Softcover. VG- ex-library with labels and stamps on spine block inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to wraps. Pages are very clean and clear. Black wraps with two tone illustrations white and tan lettering; xiii 111 pp; bw illustrations and maps. Includes bibliographical references pages 99-109 and index. Kilima House Publishers unknown books
