Pascal Blaise

1700 · ref. #BIBLIO-1193 — Les Provinciales ou Lettres écrites par Louis de Montalte Blaise Pascal à un provincial de ses amis et aux RR. PP. Jésuites sur Morale & la Politique de ces Peres avec les notes de Guillaume Wendrock. Tome Premier. The Provincial Letters or Letters written by Louis de Montalte Blaise Pascal to a provincial friend of his and to the RR. PP. Jesuits on the Morality and Politics of these Fathers with the notes of Guillaume Wendrock. Volume One. The Lettres provinciales Provincial Letters are a series of eighteen letters written by French philosopher and theologian Blaise Pascal under the pseudonym Louis de Montalte. Written in the midst of the formulary controversy between the Jansenists and the Jesuits they are a defence of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld from Port-Royal-des-Champs a friend of Pascal who in 1656 was condemned by the Faculté de Théologie at the Sorbonne in Paris for views that were claimed to be heretical. Source: Wiki Hardback full leather nouvelle new edition with frontispiece published 1700. Pagination: lxxvi 470 with one-page note of corrigenda at rear. Duodecimo/12mo measures around 4" x 6 1/2" x 1 5/8". Brown speckled leather binding raised bands and faded gilt lettering and detail to spine. Scuffing and marking to binding. Other signs of wear rubbing at edges and on hinges. Cracking to hinges especially to front outer hinge but boards still attached. Otherwise binding reasonably firm. Bumped and torn corners. Marbled page edges which are browned scuffed and otherwise marked. Some marking around edges of endpapers initials and pencil pricing to front pastedown. Soiling to gutters of endpapers. Some tanning to page extremities with mild foxing and staining to page surfaces throughout but no underlining marginalia etc. See pictures for further information. hardcover