Seigneur de DAMVILLIERS (PIERRE NICOLE)
Les imaginaires, ou lettres sur l'hérésie imaginaire
Chez Adolphe Beyers|à Liège • [Amsterdam] 1667|8 x 13.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition, published by Daniel Elzevir.
Early 19th-century full red morocco bindings, signed Canon. Spine with four raised bands richly decorated with gilt compartments, fleurons, dentelles and gilt roulettes. Covers framed with quadruple gilt fillets and gilt arabesques in corners. Fine gilt dentelles framing the doublures. All edges gilt. A very fine copy.
Pierre Nicole was, along with Antoine Arnault and Pascal, one of the principal figures of the intellectual Jansenism of Port-Royal, and one of the most vigorous opponents of the Jesuits. The author composed these letters on the model of Pascal's Provinciales in defense of Jansenism against the imaginary attacks of the Jesui
Early 19th-century full red morocco bindings, signed Canon. Spine with four raised bands richly decorated with gilt compartments, fleurons, dentelles and gilt roulettes. Covers framed with quadruple gilt fillets and gilt arabesques in corners. Fine gilt dentelles framing the doublures. All edges gilt. A very fine copy.
Pierre Nicole was, along with Antoine Arnault and Pascal, one of the principal figures of the intellectual Jansenism of Port-Royal, and one of the most vigorous opponents of the Jesuits. The author composed these letters on the model of Pascal's Provinciales in defense of Jansenism against the imaginary attacks of the Jesui
€800