Blaise PASCAL

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Arches laid paper, reimposed in quarto tellière format, the only deluxe copies printed.
Half bordeaux morocco binding with corners, spine with four raised bands, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, blue paper endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, gilt top edge, binding signed Honnelaître.
A fine copy, attractively bound.

First edition.
Publisher's full brown grained sheep binding, orange top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
Rich iconography.
Handsome copy complete with its slipcase, dust jacket and cellophane wrapper.

Edition illustrated with 17 original wood Louis Bouquet, one of the 15 best scholars of old Japan in the tank, not ours scholar, head of draw.
Signature Louis Bouquet to the justification of the draw.
Our copy, as all copies of old Japan on head and pulling as he stipulated to the justification of the draw is full of his suite printed in sepia on China and signed by Louis Bouquet.
In addition, our copy is enhanced with a suite wood signed by Louis Bouquet and printed in sepia on wove without adhesive usually accompanying the 20 numbered copies on Imperial Japan.
Some very light bites are not serious, back of the slotted...

New edition.
Half red calf binding, smooth spine lightly faded decorated with black and gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Work illustrated with a portrait of Blaise Pascal as frontispiece.
Some foxing.

First edition.
Richly illustrated.
A very good copy retaining its slipcase, dustjacket and plastic wrappers.

Illustrated edition with a frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by Albert Decaris, printed in 125 numbered copies on laid paper.
Half vellum-style boards binding, smooth spine, marbled paper boards with moiré effect, a scratch on the first cover having caused a lack of paper, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, blue top edge.

Edition illustrated with 17 original woodcuts by Louis Bouquet, one of 15 lettered copies on old Japan paper, deluxe copy.
Our copy, like all copies of the deluxe issue on old Japan paper and as stipulated in the justification page, is complete with its duplicate suite printed in bistre on China paper and signed by Louis Bouquet.
Some very light foxing of no consequence.
Rare.

Issue illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author, several ornamental head-pieces and vignettes.

Text reviewed with the original manuscript, preface and notes by Auguste Molinier.

Bindings of midnight blue morocco with corners, spine with 5 raised bands, author, title and volume numbering gilt, marbled paper sides, marbled paper endpapers and doublures, top edges gilt.

A few small rubbed spots, spines a little sunned, some foxing, chiefly to the edges, faint pencil marks to a few leaves.

 

A handsome copy of these Pensées de M. Pascal sur la religion et sur quelques autres sujets, first published by Port-Royal in 1670, here...

First edition.
Richly illustrated.
A very good copy retaining its dust jacket and its plastic wrappers.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on deluxe paper, deluxe issue.
Endpapers and title page partially shaded, otherwise handsome copy.