Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 213

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
[PASCAL, BLAISE.] Les Provinciales; or, The Mystery of Jesuitisme. Discovered in certain Letters . . . Displaying the pernicious Maximes of the late Casuists. Double-page engraved frontispiece [24], 359, [1]; [2], 247, [7] pages, including half-title. 2 parts in one volume. 12mo, 161x91 mm, contemporary calf with modern leather lettering piece, joints starting at top and wormed at bottom, recased, with modern patterned endpapers; center of frontispiece partly obscured by crease, small stain in blank outer margin of opening leaves, contents otherwise clean. Unidentified modern bookplate ("Halcyon / Lake Almanor / Burns"). London: Richard Royston, 1658

Additional Details

Second edition, enlarged, of an anonymous translation first published the year before. Wing P644.