Pascal, Blaise. Les Provinciales ou Lettres escrites par Lou - Lot 255

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Pascal, Blaise. Les Provinciales ou Lettres escrites par Lou - Lot 255
Pascal, Blaise. Les Provinciales ou Lettres escrites par Louis de Montalte à un provincial de ses amis et aux RR. PP. Jésuites sur le sujet de la morale et de la politique de ces pères. Cologne, chez Pierre de La Vallée [Amsterdam, Louis and Daniel Elsevier], 1657. In-12 bound in full dark brown morocco, triple fillet framing the boards, spine ribbed, entrenerfs decorated, roulettes on the endpapers, gilt edges (David). - Small rubbing at the head of the upper spine and on the head cover. Missing the blank sheet between the end of the 18th letter and the Advis de messieurs les curez de Paris. - 12 f. n. ch., 398, 111 pp. - First edition of the Provinciales after their publication in separate letters. Very elegant Elzévirienne edition, the first in-12 format with a continuous pagination. A first edition copy with the words "moines mandiants" in the first line of page 3 which will be corrected to "religieux mendiants" in the second edition and the eighteenth letter forming a separate part, a blank page separating it from the seventeenth letter. Willems 1218.
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