Blaise PASCAL. Pensées... sur la religion et sur quelques au - Lot 42

Blaise PASCAL. Pensées... sur la religion et sur quelques autres sujets, qui ont été trouvées après sa mort parmy ses papiers. Paris, Guillaume Desprez, 1670. In-12 (86 x 156 mm), granite calf, spine with 5 ornate nerves (period binding). La Rochebillière, n° 117 / Le Petit, 207 et seq. / Maire, IV-p. 103, n° 3 / Tchemerzine-Scheler, V-70 /// (41f.)-365-(10f.). First edition dated 1670; only two copies dated 1669 are known, one in the BnF and the other in the Troyes library. A copy that conforms in all respects to the bibliographical descriptions, with the small engraved headband depicting the Palais de Mazarin. The errors mentioned in the errata have been carefully corrected, and the copy includes an old marginal note in brown ink (p. 39). Stamp on one endpaper Institution de Mlle Suleau. One plate detached and old restorations; browning to a few leaves, tiny marginal worm gallery to the first 5 leaves.