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PASCAL, Blaise (1623-1662)

Lot 33
05.07.2023 13:00UTC +01:00
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Event locationFrance, Paris
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Lot 33 | PASCAL, Blaise (1623-1662)
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PASCAL, Blaise (1623-1662)
Pensées de M. Pascal sur la religion, et sur quelques autres sujets, qui ont esté trouvées après sa mort parmy ses papiers. Paris : Guillaume Desprez, 1670.
Édition originale.

Exemplaire provenant des bibliothèques Furstenberg et Burton, grand de marges, bien établi en maroquin rouge de Chambolle-Duru. Il s'agit de l'édition originale donnée par Guillaume Desprez à la date de 1670 avec un achevé d'imprimer au 2 janvier 1670, après une première version du texte donnée à la même adresse à la date de 1669, aujourd'hui connue à seulement deux exemplaires et qui fut "diffusée à un petit nombre de personnes, dont on attendait l'avis ou l'approbation avant publication définitive." (Pascal, Le coeur et la raison) Florin Périer détaille la genèse de l'édition dans une longue préface, expliquant que seules les pensées les plus claires ont été restituées, parmi un millier de fragments. "If the sceptic denies everything that cannot be demonstrated by reason, Pascal denies the power of reason also, whose capacity to reach conclusions exists only in the power of God; 'Cogito, ergo sum' is only true if there is a Being which can give the existence and grant it the power of thought. [...] Pascal's work has, in fact, the marks of genius, exploring and stating all that can be said on both sides of the question it investigates." (PMM).
Pascal, Le coeur et la raison, pp. 183-188 ; Tchemerzine, V, p. 70 ; En français dans le texte, n° 96 ; PMM, n° 152.

In-12 (155 x 83 mm). Collation : a12 e12 i8 o8 u1 A-P12 Q4 R8 S1(365 pages pour le texte). Reliure signée Chambolle-Duru : maroquin rouge, dos à nerfs titré or, dentelle intérieure dorée, tranches dorées sur marbrure.
Provenance : Hans Furstenberg (1890-1982 ; ex-libris) -- Henri Burton (ex-libris)

Beautiful copy of the first edition, with wide margins and bound in red morocco by Chambolle-Duru.
Place of origin:France
Auction house category:Printed books
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