PASCAL, Blaise (1623-1662). Monsieur Pascall's Thoughts, Meditations, and Prayers, Touching Matters Moral and Divine. Translated from the French by Joseph Walker. London: Jacob Tonson, 1688. 8° (177 x 112mm). With the front blank, and with the bifolium *S inserted loosely between S5 and S6 and evidently never bound-in. (Early small marginal repair in V1, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary calf, sides tooled in blind, red morocco label on the spine, edges sprinkled red (front joint starting at the head, spine head chipped, corners rubbed). Provenance: John Thicknesse (inscription dated 1694) -- Thomas Cartwright of Aynho (bookplate dated 1698 in the engraving).

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PASCAL, Blaise (1623-1662). Monsieur Pascall's Thoughts, Meditations, and Prayers, Touching Matters Moral and Divine. Translated from the French by Joseph Walker. London: Jacob Tonson, 1688. 8° (177 x 112mm). With the front blank, and with the bifolium *S inserted loosely between S5 and S6 and evidently never bound-in. (Early small marginal repair in V1, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary calf, sides tooled in blind, red morocco label on the spine, edges sprinkled red (front joint starting at the head, spine head chipped, corners rubbed). Provenance: John Thicknesse (inscription dated 1694) -- Thomas Cartwright of Aynho (bookplate dated 1698 in the engraving).

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Pascal's famed meditations on religion and the limits of Reason. A very good copy with contemporary provenance. Walker dedicated his translation to Robert Boyle. Wing P-645; cf. PMM 152.