[Blaise PASCAL]. Les Provinciales ou Les Lettres escrites pa - Lot 45

[Blaise PASCAL]. Les Provinciales ou Les Lettres escrites par Louis de Montalte, à un provincial de ses amis, & aux RR. PP. iesuites : Sur le Sujet de la Morale, & de la Politique de ces Peres. Cologne, Chés Pierre de La Vallée, 1657. In-4, brown granite calf, spine with 5 ornate nerves (period binding). Maire, II-165 / Tchemerzine-Scheler, V-62 /// (4f.)/8/8/8/8/8/8/8/8/8/8/8/8/8/12/8/12/8/8-(2f.)-20/8-17-14-(1f.)/(1f.)-6/(1f.)-6/4/15. Second edition cited by Maire, copied from the original of the same year. The eighteen letters that make up Les Provinciales had appeared separately and clandestinely in 1657. They were immediately copied and reprinted. The set we present corresponds to Maire's description of the first copy. It comprises the eighteen separately paginated letters with, between the second and third, the Provincial's Reply to the first two letters, the Refutation of the reply to the twelfth letter, placed after the twelfth letter, the Lettres au R.P. Annat after the eighteenth letter and the seven additional pieces described by Maire, the Advis de Messieurs les Curez de Paris..., the Suite de l'Extrait de plusieurs mauvaises Propositions des nouveaux Casuistes, the Extrait de plusieurs dangereuses Propositions tirées des nouveaux Casuistes...le Sommaire de la Harangue de Messieurs les Curez de Paris..., Messire Jacques Boonen's letter to the Cardinals of the Inquisition of Rome, here in Latin, the Lettre d'un ecclésiastique de Rouen à un de ses Amis... and the Lettre d'un Curé de Rouen, à un Curé de la campagne... Binding previously restored at hinges and corners. Title stained, several leaves heavily foxed and a few stains. Very good condition overall.