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Les heures françoises ou les vêpres de Sicilie, et les matines de la Saint-Barthélemi. Amsterdam: Antoine Michils, 1690. 12° (138 x 76mm). Sphere device on title, woodcut ornaments. Gilt and blind-tooled red morocco by Bauzonnet-Trautz, later ex libris on sides. Provenance: washed inscription on title -- Lignerolles Sale III, 1894, lot 2742 (pencil inscription) -- L. Giraud-Badin, 1930. FIRST EDITION. WorldCat records only 2 holdings. Brunet III, 148: 'petit volume rare ... Il a été publié comme une menace faite à Louis XIV, à l'occasion de ses envahissements et des rigueurs exercées contre les protestants.'
PASCAL, Blaise (1623-1662). Pensées ... sur la religion et sur quelques sujets, qui ont esté trouvées après sa mort parmy ses papiers. Paris: Guillaume Desprez, 1670. 12° (151 x 85mm). Monogram of G. Desprez on title, several head-pieces, one engraved, several woodcut initials. (A few burn marks and minor blemishes.) Olive green morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet, gilt-lettered spine with raised bands, gilt turn-ins and edges, later ex libris on sides. Provenance: unidentified armorial bookplate -- Biblothèque Marigues de Champ-Repus (label) -- Hector de Backer (label; lot 763 in his sale, 3-6 May, 1926, where purchased). The true second edition with faults corrected, title identical to that of the first edition. Tchemerzine IX, 73. (2)
PASCAL, Blaise (1623-1662). Pensées ... sur la religion et sur quelques sujets, qui ont esté trouvées après sa mort parmy ses papiers. Paris: Guillaume Desprez, 1670. 12° (151 x 85mm). Monogram of G. Desprez on title, several head-pieces, one engraved, several woodcut initials. (A few burn marks and minor blemishes.) Olive green morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet, gilt-lettered spine with raised bands, gilt turn-ins and edges, later ex libris on sides. Provenance: unidentified armorial bookplate -- Biblothèque Marigues de Champ-Repus (label) -- Hector de Backer (label; lot 763 in his sale, 3-6 May, 1926, where purchased). The true second edition with faults corrected, title identical to that of the first edition. Tchemerzine IX, 73. (2)