[Rarebooks] fa: BLAISE PASCAL - PENSEES DE M. PASCAL sur la RELIGION et sur AUTRES SUJETS 1684

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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[Blaise Pascal:] Pensees de M[onsieur] Pascal sur la Religion & sur quelques autres sujets, Qui ont este trouvees apres sa mort parmy ses papiers. Edition nouvelle augmentee de beaucoup de pensees, & de la Vie du même Autheur. Amsterdam: Abraham Wolfgang, 1684. Full early/period goatskin; 12mo (15.5 cm); 49, [51], 107, [7], 253, [19] pp.

Contains a life of Pascal by his sister, Madame Perier; Discours sur les Preuves des Livres de Moyse; Qu'il y a des Demonstrations d'une autre Espece, et aussi certaines que celles de la Geometrie; etc., etc. Rubbing and wear to the binding; several page-gatherings protruding  slightly from the text block but secure; browning to the preliminary and terminal blanks, toning to the title-page, some light intermittent damp-stain; one leaf with short edge-tears; early owner's signature ("Guillaume Ker," dated 1724) to the front endpaper.