429 - Pascal, B. The Moral Doctrine and Politics of the Jesuits. Translated from the French and with some annotations. 2 parts in 1 volume. (No place or publisher) 1740. 8 leaves, 540 (recte 524) pages, 4 leaves; 68 pages. Small octavo. Somewhat earlier blind-tooled pigskin binding with gilt-stamped supralibros (somewhat rubbed, endpapers renewed).

Pascal, B. The Moral Doctrine and Politics of the Jesuits. Translated from the French and with some annotations. 2 parts in 1 volume. (No place or publisher) 1740. 8 leaves, 540 (recte 524) pages, 4 leaves; 68 pages. Small octavo. Somewhat earlier blind-tooled pigskin binding with gilt-stamped supralibros (somewhat rubbed, endpapers renewed). Fromm 19676; cf. PMM 268 (French edition of 1656/7). - First German edition. - Part 1: Provinciales, or Eighteen Letters ... Written under the name Louis de Montalte To one of his friends and to the RRPP Jesuits. Part 2: The Secret Instructions of the Jesuits, for the Advancement of Their Temporal Interests. - Rare first German edition of Pascal's 'Lettres Provinciales'. - Rare; according to the KVK (Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog), only three libraries worldwide are known to possess it. - The translator is unknown; in the preface to the new translation, Lemgo 1773, its author, Lachmann, writes: 'There is supposed to be an older German translation of these very letters, which I have not seen.' - Slightly browned and partly somewhat damp-edged, title page and following leaf with restored losses in the white foot margin. Pages 531-532 and 537-538 bound behind page 66 of the second part; the pagination in the first part jumps from page 62 to 81.