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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
1950S0350Paris: 1950. 1950. 241 x 165 mm. 8vo. 52 pp. 9 illus. Printed wrappers; loose in later library covers. Very good. 1950. 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
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
158992Edinburgh: Otto Shulze & Company nd. Hardcover. VG- No dj; covers and flyleaves have some aging or tanning; interior surfaces are crisp and clean. Tan paper boards with tan spine tan title block on spine; 240 pp. Presents the philosophies of French mathematician and thinker Blaise Pascal 1623-1662 translated from the French by Isaac Taylor. Otto Shulze & Company hardcover books
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
19141341675Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie 1914. 7th edition revised and enlarged. Hardcover. 18mo; 7th edition revised and enlarged; G-; Hardcover; Spine green with gold print; Boards quarter bound with green cloth to spine and grey paper to boards wear to spine caps edges and corners cocked spine shelfwear/rubbing bumps to front top and bottom edges; Text block has spotting to edges name in ink on front pastedown slightly cracked front hinge occasional foxing within else clean text; Text in French; ix 808 pages frontispiece illustrated b&w plates including 1 folded plate. 1341675. FP New Rockville Stock. Librairie Hachette et Cie hardcover books
19841340245Franklin Center PA: The Franklin Library 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 487 pages; VG-; full binding of genuine teal leather; spine paneled with gilt lettering and design; some shelf wear and soiling; wear to upper edge of front board; all edges gilt; silk moire end papers; satin ribbon bookmark; pages clean; shelved Franklin Library. 1340245. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Franklin Library hardcover books
194860329Paris: Éditions Albin Michel 1948. stiff paper wrappers. folio. stiff paper wrappers. 28 xxxviii leaves 5 32-64 4 pages unopened. Edition limited to 1560 numbered copies. P.L. Couchoud provides a discussion of Pascal's Discours de la Condition de L'Homme followed by a facsimile of the original manuscript. Couchoud examines the origins of the manuscript its date its dispersement and its reassembly. Each leaf of the facsimile is opposite a transcription of the text. Illustrated in black-and-white. Corners of cover rubbed. Éditions Albin Michel unknown books
1947WRCLIT54911Paris: Éditions de la Bonne Compagnie 1947. 54pp. Decorated wrappers edges untrimmed. Frontis. Colour woodcut illustrations. Slight foxing to gutters of title page small nicks at spine crown otherwise near fine in a tanned glassine dust wrapper. Number 397 of one thousand copies printed under the direction of Raymond Jacquet. Woodcuts by Cluseau-Lanauve. Éditions de la Bonne Compagnie unknown books
1971WB17260Bloomfield Conn: The Limited Editions Club 1971. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Signed by illustrator Ismar David. Copy 81 of a total edition of 1500. Excellent copy in publisher's slipcase. <br/><br/> The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
197156878Bloomfield Connecticut: The Limited Editions Club 1971. 4to pp. xix 1 184; translated by Martin Turnell plates in color; #217 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator Ismar David; fine in original orange and cream cloth stamped in blind on upper cover gilt-lettered spine glassine wrapper chipped and torn in black publisher's slipcase lettered in gilt on spine. LEC Bibliography 441. <br/><br/> The Limited Editions Club 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
1754WRCLIT66722Paris 1754. lxxxii336pp. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf gilt label. Spine extremities and foretips worn but sound otherwise a very good copy. "Nouvelle Edition" with an abridged life of Pascal and history of the Lettres by Laurent Etienne Rondet. 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
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
17832305751Paris: Chez Nyon l'aine Libraire 1783. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. Front free endpaper removed two owner bookplates on front paste-down ink number on title page. 1783 Full-Leather. cxii 475 pp. 12mo. French text. Original full tree calf gilt titles and decorations burgundy morocco spine label. "Blaise Pascal the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes was a gifted mathematician and physicist but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. "The Pensees" is a collection of philosophical fragments notes and essays in which Pascal explores the contradictions of human nature in psychological social metaphysical and - above all - theological terms. Mankind emerges from Pascal's analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within an impersonal universe but who can be transformed through faith in God's grace. Chez Nyon, l'aine, Libraire unknown 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
