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First edition. This copy has an autograph inscription from Pierre Nicole to his student and friend M. [Louis] Angran. It also contains two manuscript additions (pp. 48 and 329), most probably from the hand of the author.
Contemporary speckled sheep. Spine in six compartments with gilt fleurons. Gilt roulettes to head- and tail-pieces. All edges speckled red. Two little wormholes to spine, a few more to covers. Joints rubbed and a little cracked. Library label to pastedown.
Louis Angran (1622-1706), from an important family of magistrates near Port-Royal, with ties of kinship to the Arnaulds, was a student of Pierre Nicole alongside Jean Racine in the “littl