Cioranescu, III, 51935; Tchemerzine-Scheler, V, 68; Willems, 1218 (possibly this copy, a red morocco by Bauzonnet-Trauz mentioned)<\/i><\/p>\n
Elzevirian edition, the first in 12mo format, published in the year of the original, and the first with continuous pagination.<\/p>\n
First-issue copy, with \u2018escrites\u2019 on the title page (not \u2018ecrites\u2019), the Advertissment mentioning only XVII letters, \u2018la facult\u00e9 de Paris\u2019 on the first page (rather than \u2018la facult\u00e9 de Th\u00e9ologie de Paris\u2019), the error \u2018moines mendiants\u2019 instead of \u2018religieux mendiants\u2019 on page 3 (these last two features are underlined in pink in our copy).<\/p>\n
This edition was printed by Louis and Daniel Elzevier in Amsterdam under the fictitious address of Pierre de La Vall\u00e9e in Cologne; it is not an invention of the publishers who merely adopted the pseudonyms of the French publishers.<\/p>\n
In addition to the Advertissment and the eighteen letters of the original edition, this edition is followed by an appendix (with its own pagination). This appendix contains 15 polemical pieces attributed to Pascal, Nicole and Arnauld, beginning with \u2018Advis de Messieurs les curez de Paris.\u2019<\/p>\n
Provenance: Nicolas Yemeniz (1783\u20131871), bookplate on the reverse of the upper endpaper \u2013 Biblioth\u00e8que du Duc de Chartres (label by Pierre Ber\u00e8s on the inside front cover).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
12mo (128 x 68 mm), 12 folios un.ll.(title and advertisement) and 398 pp., 1 b.l.., 111 pp. Red morocco, triple fillet framing covers, spine gilt with raised bands, edges gilt on marbled edges, interior rolls (Trauz-Bauzonnet<\/i>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":91178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[544],"product_tag":[1244,1266],"class_list":{"0":"post-91135","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-literature","7":"product_tag-17th-century-literature","8":"product_tag-philosophy","9":"pa_auteur-pascal-blaise-2","10":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Blaise PASCAL","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"Cologne [Amsterdam], Pierre de la Vall\u00e9e, 1657","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":"oui"},"yoast_head":"\n