Pensées de M. Pascal sur la religion et sur quelques autres sujets, qui ont esté trouvées après sa mort parmy ses papiers by Pascal, Blaise - 1684

Paris: Guillaume Desprez, 1670. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo (152 x 86 mm). [82], 365 [1], [22] pp. Signatures: ã12 ē12 ī8 o8 u1 A-P12 Q4 R8 S2. With 'Approbation des Prelats' leaf, 2 leaves of privilege with errata on verso of second, and the table on content. Title with printer's monogram device, engraved headpiece on p.1, woodcut initials and type-ornament head- and tailpieces, bound with the final blank leaf S2. Leaf K9 misbound before K8. Bound by Aussourd in early 20th-century fine red morocco, spine lettered and tooled in gilt and with 5 raised bands, boards, board edges and turn-ins ruled and tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Housed in custom-made slip-case. The text crisp and bright throughout, fore-edge of leaves G1-3 with some tilt and slightly shorter (originally bound crooked and here straightened). Provenance: Mis de Castelnau (incribed on title). A tall, exceptionally well preserved copy. ---- PMM 152; Tchemerzine V 70; En… Read More