Blaise Pascal - Lettres provinciales - 1877

Blaise Pascal. Provincial Letters. Paris, E. Plon, 1877, xxvii-304 pp., 339 pp.

2 volumes in-16 (135x90 mm), full blue morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt inner dentelle, marbled edges (bindings of the period). Wear and rubbing on the boards and spine, a small stain on the second board of volume II. Pinholes throughout the pages.

New edition of Pascal's Provinciales printed in small run (300 copies on laid paper)

The Provinciales are a collection of fictitious letters that initially aimed to defend the Jansenist theologian Antoine Arnauld, threatened with condemnation by the Sorbonne, before turning to a critique of the Society of Jesus.