Pensees de Blaise Pascal suivies d'une nouvelle table analytique and Lettres Ecrites a Un Provincial by Pascal, Blaise - 1828

Charles Clement, London, 1824. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. A new endpaper (cut within the frames of the original endpapers) has been pasted down over the original endpapers, obviously to strengthen the inside front hinge binding. This would appear (by paper age) to have occurred sometime in the late 19th or early 20th century. The pastedown is firm and secure, and there is no showthrough of glue marks on the rear of the free endpaper (flyleaf). Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text is in French. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Endpapers browned, text has scattered foxing, but mostly clean. Previous owner's signature in ink. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; France; 19th century; French Language; Language & Linguistics. All our pictures shown here are… Read More

A Londres [i.e. Paris?]: Jacques Tonsson, 1742. Hardcover. Very Good -. xii, 180, 224 p.; 18 cm. Signatures: a6 A-O8+4 P6 2A-S8+4 T4 (12mo). Contemporary sprinkled calf with faint remains of gilt-tooled spine. All page edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Running title: Essais de Politique, & de Morale. Front fixed endpaper bears armorial bookplate of P. Daubignard with motto "Tacio quid mihi placet." A few words written in an old hand on title page. Translated from English by Claude Pierre Goujet; imprint is false -- possibly printed in Paris. ESTC, 213884. The second part has separate title page and pagination. In Very Good- Condition: front joint weak; back joint starting at head of spine; loss of leather at ends of spine; corners rubbed; very occasional foxing; otherwise clean and tight.

Madrid: Blas Roman, 1781. Hardcover. Very Good -. xxvii, [1], 243, [1] p.; [8], 182, [2] p.; 22 cm. Signatures: a-c4 d2 A-Z4 2A-2G4 2H2; [pi]4 A-Z4. 19th-century tree calf with five spine compartments between gilt rules; boards have bevelled edges. Leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Feyjoo Ilustracion. Remains of handwritten paper label at tail of spine. Marbled fixed endpapers. The second title was also published by Blas Roman in 1781. Engraved headpieces and initials. Pink oval stamp on p. 1 of Ilustracion Apologetica of the Biblioteca del Colegio Civil Queretaro. Benito Jerónimo Feijoo y Montenegro (1676-1764) was an important Spanish philosopher whose 9-volume Teatro Crítico Universal (1727-39) and 5-volume Cartas Eruditas y Curiosas (1742-60) were collections of essays on wide-ranging topics. The two works in this volume were his responses to criticisms of his previous work. The back fixed endpaper is partially detached; the front fixed endpaper is completely… Read More

The third edition corrected, and enlarged by an appendix, containing additional notes, and a dissertation on the Being and the attributes of the Deity. Printed for T Cadell. London. 1787. 8vo. vii, 512pp, 3pp publisher's adverts. Later full calf, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, blind tooling, leather label and gilt lettering. Signature to title page. The first work by Price, Richard (1723 - 1791) FRS, philosopher, demographer, and political radical. He studied under Vavasor Griffiths at Chancefield, Talgarth. His writings in defence of the American patriots led to an invitation to advise congress conveyed to him by Benjamin Franklin, Arthur Lee, and John Adams. A member of the intellectual societies the Bowood Group and Benjamin Franklin's 'Club of Honest Whigs'. The journal Enlightenment and Dissent remains a focus for the study of Price's thought. This is his first work: the third edition, being greatly enlarged.
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Rudolfo Anaya. Bless Me, Ultima. TQS, Quinto Sol Publications, Inc. Berkeley, CA. Softcover. Copyright 1972, 25th Printing Thus, 1991 SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. ABOUT RUDOLFO ANAYA: Rudolfo Anaya was an American author. Noted for his 1972 novel Bless Me, Altima, Anaya was considered one of the founders of the canon of contemporary Chicano literature. We consider offers.

Charles Clement, London, 1824. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. A new endpaper (cut within the frames of the original endpapers) has been pasted down over the original endpapers, obviously to strengthen the inside front hinge binding. This would appear (by paper age) to have occurred sometime in the late 19th or early 20th century. The pastedown is firm and secure, and there is no showthrough of glue marks on the rear of the free endpaper (flyleaf). Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text is in French. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Endpapers browned, text has scattered foxing, but mostly clean. Previous owner's signature in ink. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; France; 19th century; French Language; Language & Linguistics. All our pictures shown here are… Read More

A Londres [i.e. Paris?]: Jacques Tonsson, 1742. Hardcover. Very Good -. xii, 180, 224 p.; 18 cm. Signatures: a6 A-O8+4 P6 2A-S8+4 T4 (12mo). Contemporary sprinkled calf with faint remains of gilt-tooled spine. All page edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Running title: Essais de Politique, & de Morale. Front fixed endpaper bears armorial bookplate of P. Daubignard with motto "Tacio quid mihi placet." A few words written in an old hand on title page. Translated from English by Claude Pierre Goujet; imprint is false -- possibly printed in Paris. ESTC, 213884. The second part has separate title page and pagination. In Very Good- Condition: front joint weak; back joint starting at head of spine; loss of leather at ends of spine; corners rubbed; very occasional foxing; otherwise clean and tight.

Madrid: Blas Roman, 1781. Hardcover. Very Good -. xxvii, [1], 243, [1] p.; [8], 182, [2] p.; 22 cm. Signatures: a-c4 d2 A-Z4 2A-2G4 2H2; [pi]4 A-Z4. 19th-century tree calf with five spine compartments between gilt rules; boards have bevelled edges. Leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Feyjoo Ilustracion. Remains of handwritten paper label at tail of spine. Marbled fixed endpapers. The second title was also published by Blas Roman in 1781. Engraved headpieces and initials. Pink oval stamp on p. 1 of Ilustracion Apologetica of the Biblioteca del Colegio Civil Queretaro. Benito Jerónimo Feijoo y Montenegro (1676-1764) was an important Spanish philosopher whose 9-volume Teatro Crítico Universal (1727-39) and 5-volume Cartas Eruditas y Curiosas (1742-60) were collections of essays on wide-ranging topics. The two works in this volume were his responses to criticisms of his previous work. The back fixed endpaper is partially detached; the front fixed endpaper is completely… Read More

The third edition corrected, and enlarged by an appendix, containing additional notes, and a dissertation on the Being and the attributes of the Deity. Printed for T Cadell. London. 1787. 8vo. vii, 512pp, 3pp publisher's adverts. Later full calf, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, blind tooling, leather label and gilt lettering. Signature to title page. The first work by Price, Richard (1723 - 1791) FRS, philosopher, demographer, and political radical. He studied under Vavasor Griffiths at Chancefield, Talgarth. His writings in defence of the American patriots led to an invitation to advise congress conveyed to him by Benjamin Franklin, Arthur Lee, and John Adams. A member of the intellectual societies the Bowood Group and Benjamin Franklin's 'Club of Honest Whigs'. The journal Enlightenment and Dissent remains a focus for the study of Price's thought. This is his first work: the third edition, being greatly enlarged.
Provenance: Signature of William Torrence (slightly cropped) to upper margin… Read More

Rudolfo Anaya. Bless Me, Ultima. TQS, Quinto Sol Publications, Inc. Berkeley, CA. Softcover. Copyright 1972, 25th Printing Thus, 1991 SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. ABOUT RUDOLFO ANAYA: Rudolfo Anaya was an American author. Noted for his 1972 novel Bless Me, Altima, Anaya was considered one of the founders of the canon of contemporary Chicano literature. We consider offers.