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1658307Leiden Netherlands alias: Coloniae: Jean Elzevir alias: Apud Nicolaum Schouten 1658. First Latin Edition. Contemporary mottled full calf. Very Good. First Latin edition published and translated from the original French anonymously for fear of reprisal from the Catholic Church and the king of France.<br /> <br /> IMPORTANCE AND IMPACT<br /> <br /> The Lettres provinciales Provincial Letters are a series of eighteen polemical letters written by Pascal under the pseudonym Louis de Montalte. In these letters Pascal humorously attacked casuistry a rhetorical method of questionable logic often used by Jesuit theologians and accused Jesuits of moral laxity. The final letter from Pascal in 1657 had defied the Pope himself provoking Alexander VII to condemn the letters. The reaction to the Lettres provinciales was substantial. Pascal's use of wit humor and mockery in attacking existing institutions made his work extremely popular. However its publication was primarily via the underground press and in 1660 Louis XIV of France banned the book and ordered it shredded and burned. The Church banned it by placing on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. Pascal himself had to enter clandestinity living in cheap hostels. Moreover even Pope Alexander while publicly opposing them nonetheless was persuaded by Pascal's arguments. Just a few years later 1665–66 and then 1679 Alexander condemned "laxity" in the church and ordered a revision of casuistic texts.<br /> <br /> Condition: Very Good. Complete.<br /> <br /> Full Title Translated: LUDOVICI MONTALTUS PROVINCIAL LETTERS from the Morality & Politics of Jesuit discipline. By Wilhelm Wendrock a theologian from Salzburg translated from French into Latin and illustrated with theological notes in which both the accusations of the Jesuits against Montalto are repelled and the principal topics of moral theology are vindicated from the corruptions of the new casuists<br /> <br /> BOOK INFO<br /> <br /> Published in 1658 in Leiden Netherlands by Jean Elzevir of the famed Dutch publishing powerhouse anonymously as Apud Nicolaum Schouten in Coloniae. First Latin edition. Translated into Latin from French by Pierre Nicole as "Willem Wendrockius" and as "Paulus Irenaeus". Bound in its contemporary mottled full calf. Spine with raised bands separating compartments richly tooled and ruled in gilt. All edges speckled red. Octavo 7.5" x 4.75". Collated and complete: 32 608 pp. Woodcut printer device on title page. Woodcut head- and tail pieces and decorated initials.<br /> <br /> CONDITION REPORT<br /> <br /> The book is in Very Good antiquarian condition.<br /> <br /> Exterior and Binding: Soiling and some white staining to boards. Joints starting to split near the spine tips but binding is holding firm. Chips to leather at spine tips. Rubbed extremities worn and bumped corners. Top edge darkened per usual.<br /> <br /> Interior: Pages are generally lightly toned browning in some sections. Light scattered foxing. Title page with partially erased antiquarian ink writing with a small hole from the scrubbing effort. Evidence of bookplate removal on front pastedown. Former owner name in ink on front pastedown and antique writing in French on verso of FFEP. Grubbiness to title page and endpapers. Signs of light handling like some creases and smudges some light marginal water spotting on occasion. 17th century bookplate of Francois Hemart on rear pastedown.<br /> <br /> ABOUT THE AUTHOR<br /> <br /> <br /> <p>Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662 was a French mathematician physicist inventor philosopher and Catholic writer. Pascal was a child prodigy. His earliest mathematical work was on projective geometry; he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of conic sections at the age of 16. He later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. In 1642 he started some pioneering work on calculating machines called Pascal's calculators and later Pascalines establishing him as one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator.</p> <br /> <p>Like his contemporary René Descartes Pascal was also a pioneer in the natural and applied sciences. Pascal wrote in defense of the scientific method and produced several controversial writings.He made important contributions to the study of fluids and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalising the work of Evangelista Torricelli. The SI unit for pressure is named for Pascal. Following Torricelli and Galileo Galilei in 1647 he rebutted the likes of Aristotle and Descartes who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum.</p> <br /> <p>He is also credited as the inventor of modern public transportation having established the carrosses à cinq sols a system of publicly available coaches the first modern public transport service shortly before his death in 1662.</p> <br /> PROVENANCE<br /> <br /> From the estate of Francois Hemart. Hermart settled in Champagne France in the early 17th century. He is primarily remembered through the Champagne house Henri Giraud which produces a grand cu cuvee named Hommage a Francois Hemart in his honor. Jean Elzevir (alias: Apud Nicolaum Schouten) unknown
1667156P., Savreux, 1667, un volume in 4 relié en plein veau, dos orné de fers dorés, tranches mouchetées, armes sur les plats (reliure de l'époque), (petit accroc à la coiffe sans gravité, mouillures marginales sans gravité aux trois derniers feuillets), (12), 345pp., 4 PLANCHES REPRESENTANT DES CARRES MAGIQUES, (1-errata), figures dans le texte
1699265141699. A Bruxelles chez EugÂne Henry Fricx 1699. Un vol. au format in-12 163 x 98 mm de 2 ff. n.fol. et 404 pp. Reliure de l'ÂŽpoque de plein veau mouchetÂŽ brun plats jansÂŽnistes dos ˆ nerfs ornÂŽ de filets gras ˆ froid caissons d'encadrement dorÂŽs larges fleurons dorÂŽs piÂce de titre de maroquin havane titre dorÂŽ palette dorÂŽe en tÂte et queue dentelle dorÂŽe sur les coupes tranches mouchetÂŽes. A la fin du siÂcle Perrault ayant fait l'ÂŽloge des Provinciales dans ses ParallÂles des anciens et modernes Gabriel Daniel ÂŽcrivit une RÂŽponse aux lettres provinciales de Blaise Pascal ; laquelle contient une analyse intÂŽressante de son style. Pierre Bayle dans son Dictionnaire historique prÂŽtend que la premiÂre ÂŽdition a presque complÂtement disparu les jansÂŽnistes ayant rachetÂŽ ˆ prix d or et dÂŽtruit la plupart des exemplaires. Barbier IV Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes 305-d - Brunet IV Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres 398 pour l'originale de 1696. Infimes marques d'usage affectant la reliure. Papier lÂŽgÂrement oxydÂŽ. Du reste trÂs belle condition. b42961 unknown
169926514A Bruxelles, chez Eugène Henry Fricx, 1699. Un vol. au format in-12 (163 x 98 mm) de 2 ff. n.fol. et 404 pp. Reliure de l'époque de plein veau moucheté brun, plats jansénistes, dos à nerfs orné de filets gras à froid, caissons d'encadrement dorés, larges fleurons dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin havane, titre doré, palette dorée en tête et queue, dentelle dorée sur les coupes, tranches mouchetées.
1657100589London: Printed by J.G. for R. Royston 1657. First edition in English. 12mo. Additional engraved title by Robert Vaughan. 22 504 405-409 7 pp. COLLATION: A-Y12 Z6 complete with blank A1 and errata and catalogue at rear. Contemporary blind-ruled sheep; rubbed with some surface loss; occassional light staining to text some small paper flaws with flaw on K5 costing a few letters Anonymous translation sometime incorrectly ascribed to John Evelyn of Pascal's 18 Lettres provinciales 1656-1657 an attack on the Jesuits in defense of Jansenism an ascetic reform movement within the Catholic Church that Pascal had joined in 1654. "This is one of the great polemical works of French literature ranging in tone from ironical mockery to angry denunciation and using a number of very successful argumentational devices and tactics" New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. "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 the prose of Milton" PMM. The engraved title uses Pascal's pseudonym Louis de Montalte. REFERENCE: ESTC R203163; PMM 140; Thomason E.16231 Printed by J.G. for R. Royston unknown
1656ST12177-11Paris or Leyden 1656-57; related material 1657-58. 235 x 165 mm. 9 1/4 x 6 1/2". With 16 of 18 letters lacking letters IV and XVIII as well as general title and "Advertisement" leaf. 17 of 19 individually issued parts including the "Refutation de la Réponse à la Douzième Lettre". <br/> The original parts bound up in pleasing modern tan crushed morocco blind-ruled border raised bands gilt titling new endpapers. PMM 140; Tchemerzine V 62-63. ◆Light brown stain to head margin of the last quarter of the leaves occasional faint browning or foxing elsewhere more conspicuous on final gathering minor worming in bottom margin of a few leaves otherwise a very good copy internally with nothing approaching a serious defect and in a pleasing unworn binding.<br/> <br/> In addition to related material normally not included this volume contains 17 of the rare original 19 separately issued letters or "Provinciales" by the French polymath Blaise Pascal 1623-62 a series characterized by PMM as "the first example of French prose as we know it today perfectly finished in form . . . on a subject of universal importance . . . and an expression of one of the finest intelligences of the seventeenth century." Prompted by the Jesuits' condemnation for heresy of Pascal's friend Antoine Arnauld the letters are "a magnificent sustained invective" PMM against the laxity and casuistry of his detractors and at the same time a defense of Jansenism that theological movement and faction within Catholicism that grew out of the writings of Dutch theologian Cornelius Jansen 1585-1638 and that emphasized many of the Calvinist tenets of faith human sinfulness lack of free will and the necessity of divine Grace. The additional material apparently collected from a variety of sources comprises letters Pascal wrote to parish priests seeking assistance with the controversy. There is also a copy of Noel de la Lane's "Recit de ce qui s'est Passé au Parlement au Sujet de la Bulle de Nostre S. Père le Pape Alexandre VII. contre les Censures de Sorbonne" ca. 1665. Pascal 1623-62 was a man of many attainments in several fields among them physics philosophy and mathematics. Above all he was a profound thinker a devout Christian and the creator of memorable prose. Written simply lucidly objectively and wittily the "Provinciales" represents a landmark in French literature an early expression of Enlightenment thinking. It was enormously successful dealt the Jesuits a fatal setback and influenced the prose of Voltaire and Rousseau. Not surprisingly the book was put on the Index and ordered to be burned. Originally printed clandestinely by various printers as separate publications at various times during 1656 and 1657 the series is bibliographically complicated but it is clear that our quarto format versions precede the duodecimo printing dated 1657 and obviously those editions with later dates. It is likely given the small parts we are missing that someone assembled the various letters found here as they were issued at the time. A complete set of these letters in first edition--which is rarely seen--would sell for a considerable amount of money. unknown
165728515Cologne" 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. Chés Pierre de la Vallée unknown
1658elala1202<p>Cologne: Nicolaus Schouten ie. Leyden: Jean Elzevir 1658. 1658. 8vo. pp. 16 p.l. 608. woodcutornaments & initials. calf antique light dampmark in fore-margin of outer leaves former owner's name deleted on title. First Edition in Latin pseudonymously translated by Port-Royal moralist and theologian Pierre Nicole of the Lettres Provinciales the most important ethical work of Pascal and one of the great classics of French prose. 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 chief 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 counter-attack took the form of a brilliant exposure of the casuistical methods of argument employed by the Jesuits. It was at the time a magnificent sustained invective after which the Jesuits never recovered their former position in France it was largely responsible for the traditional bad name they still less deservedly bear and a noble defence of thought in religious faith. 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 the prose of Milton at its best." PMM Brunet IV 396. Rand I p. 395. Rahir 829 with final errata leaf not called for by Willems. Willems 829. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 140. 1st Edition.</p> Cologne: Nicolaus Schouten [ie. Leyden: Jean Elzevir], 1658.
1657383971657 Petit in-12 (132 x 76 mm), basane glacée brune, dos à 4 nerfs plats, orné de compartiments garnis de petits fers dorés, doubles filets d'encadrement sur les plats (reliure de l'époque), (24), 398 p., (1) f. bl., 111 p. Cologne, Pierre de la Vallée [i.e. Amsterdam, Louis & Daniel Elzevier], 1657.
165799081657 veau brun, dos à n., tr. dorées. pet. in-12, (12ff.), 396pp., 108pp., Cologne chés Pierre de La Vallée 1657, (Amsterdam Louis et Daniel Elzévier),
1697045799Rouen & Delft: Hendrik van Rhyn 1697. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Full contemporary calf worn at edges and hinges scattered foxing and light stains old notes and a doodle to endpapers. 2 2-344 4; 8 336 4 12 pp A response to Blaise Pascal's 'Provinciales' which appeared under the pseudonym of Louis de Montalte they were published at Cologne in 1657 Size: duodecimo 12mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Philosophy. Inventory No: 045799. <br/><br/> Hendrik van Rhyn hardcover
1697265851697 Rouen. Henri Van Rhin. 1697. 4 parties en 2 volumes in-12, plein veau époque, dos à nerfs ornés, pièces de titre rouge, de tomaison beige. 13 pp. ; VIII pp. ; 160 pp. ; (4) ff. ; 161- 344 pp. - (4) ff. ; 192 pp. ; VIII pp. ; 193-336 pp. ; (2) ff.
162426291Paris Thomas de la Rvelle 1624. Small 8vo. Cont. full calf. Richly gilt back. Titlelabel gilt. Top and bottom of spine worn. Back and edges rubbed. 3230033811 pp. Occasionally brownspotted. <br/><br/><em>First edition. Consists of dialogues between Frenchman a Spaniard an italian on different scientific and moral questions. </em> unknown
1666094109Cologne Köln: Nicolas Schoute 1666. 8 Bl. 355 S.; mit Titelvignette u. 2 Schmuckbordüren in Holzschnitt; Pappband der Zeit rundum Rotschnitt; Kanten berieben Ecken gestaucht innen sehr gut stabiles Expl. Pappband. Befriedigend. 172 cm. Nicolas Schoute Hardcover
168954924BBCologne, (i.e. Rotterdam) Chez Nicolas Schoute. 1689. 12°. 24 p.n.ch., 432 p., Reliure pleine basane sobre.
162426291Paris, Thomas de la Rvelle, 1624. Small 8vo. Cont. full calf. Richly gilt back. Titlelabel gilt. Top and bottom of spine worn. Back and edges rubbed. 32,300,338,(11) pp. Occasionally brownspotted.
1697200302Amsterdam, Donato Donati, 1697, in-12, 2 ff., 414 pp., relié pleine basane de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné. (reliure usagée, coins émoussés, coiffes manquantes, mouillures).
1684CLL-207Cologne, Balthasar Winfelt, 1684 In-8 de (20) ff., 613 pp., maroquin marine à grain long, plats ornés d'une succession d'encadrement de filets dorés et de roulettes à froid avec larges fleurons d'angle, dos à nerfs orné et doré, coupes et bordures décorées, tranches dorées (Thouvenin).
