PASCAL, Blaise. Les provinciales, ou lettres écrites par Lou - Lot 116

PASCAL, Blaise. Les provinciales, ou lettres écrites par Louis de Montalte à un provincial de ses amis et aux PP. jésuites, touchant la morale et la politique de ces Pères, avec les notes de Guil. Wendrock [Pierre Nicole]. Published in Amsterdam, at the company's expense in 1753. In 3 volumes, format In douze / In-12. Mahogany marbled calf. Smooth spines decorated with fleurons, gilt title and tomaison on red and beige morocco parts, gilt fillets on the edges, midnight blue speckled edges. Contemporary binding. (5)-534 ; (5)-431 ; (5)-477 pages, decorated with headbands, lettrines and endpapers. New edition of this set of eighteen letters, partly fictitious, written by Blaise Pascal. Published between January 1656 and March 1657, they were initially intended to defend the Jansenist theologian Antoine Arnauld, threatened with condemnation by the Sorbonne, before turning to criticism of the Society of Jesus. Incomplete series, with Volume I missing. Slight rubbing to headpieces, spine and edges, upper headpieces partly gone on volumes III and IV, internally fresh and free of foxing. Beautiful set, uniformly bound.