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247 - Pascal, Blaise. *Les Provinciales, or Letters Written by Louis de Montalte to a Provincial Friend*. Cologne, Pierre de la Vallée [i.e., Amsterdam, Louis and Daniel Elzevier], 1657. A clandestine yet highly significant milestone in European print culture
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Pascal, Blaise. *Les Provinciales, or Letters Written by Louis de Montalte to a Provincial Friend*. Cologne, Pierre de la Vallée [i.e., Amsterdam, Louis and Daniel Elzevier], 1657. A clandestine yet highly significant milestone in European print culture Pascal, Blaise. *Les Provinciales, or Letters Written by Louis de Montalte to a Provincial Friend*. Cologne, Pierre de la Vallée [i.e., Amsterdam, Louis and Daniel Elzevier], 1657. 12mo (132 x 75 mm); [12], 396, 108. Contemporary binding in brown vellum, spine decorated with gilt metal tools, wheel mark at the nail hole (upper cover detached, some defects). Published concurrently with the quarto edition, this more compact volume was secretly produced by the Elzeviers to circumvent censorship and disseminate Pascal’s scathing satire against Jesuit casuistry throughout Europe. This copy exhibits all the distinctive features of the first printings, namely the misprint “religieux mandiants” on page 3 and the mention of only “XVII lettres” in the colophon. Copies that still retain these uncorrected pages are extremely rare. A highly significant, clandestine milestone in European print culture
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