CHANTERESNE, le Sieur de, pseudo of Pierre NICOLE... Lot 19

CHANTERESNE, le Sieur de, pseudo of Pierre NICOLE PASCAL (Blaise) [ Antoine Rochebilière (1811-1881)] DE L'EDUCATION D'UN PRINCE divided into three parts, the last of which contains various Traittez useful to everyone. Paris, Chez la veuve Charles Savreux, Libraire Juré au pièd de la Tour de Nostre-Dame. 1670 1 vol. in-12°, (15,9 x 9,5 cm ) [22] 426 pp, [3] pp. table at end Ref : Barbier II - 32-33 - Cioranescu XVIIe III - 51161 Some foxing, a tiny worm hole crossing the extremity of the outer margin of the last 65 pages. Very rare first edition of the very first printing (Ceceron's mistake on the first page of the preface and the omission of a line on the verso of folio ã8 of the preface and the omission of a line on the following folio e1) Important pedagogical work by Pierre Nicole which also contains the original edition of Blaise Pascal's three speeches on the condition of the great. According to I. Carré, "Traité de l'éducation d'un Prince is a little masterpiece, better written than most of the works that came out of Port-Royal, and full of sensible reflections, which are no less applicable to the education of the general public than to that of a king (...) Nicole can rightly be considered as a precursor and as one of the masters of French pedagogy. This treatise must have been written around 1668 when the Jansenist party hoped to place Nicole or Arnauld as tutor to the Dauphin. But it was Montausier who took the coveted position. Nicole, who had taken part in the preparation of the posthumous edition of Pascal's Pensées, praises this collection as "one of the most useful that can be put into the hands of Princes who have a mind" and he takes the opportunity to print three speeches by B. Pascal on the condition of the great ones that the Dauphin had to face. Pascal on the condition of the great that the philosopher from Auvergne would have pronounced (in the years 1660-1662) before a person who, struck by their relevance, would have restored them from memory seven or eight years later, if not to the letter, at least to the substance. Maire V, n°92; Cioranescu, 51161; Rochebilière I, 131; Libr. Jammes, cat. Pédagogie (1971), n°76. Bound in brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt caissons, gilt roulette on the edges, edges spotted with red, white endpapers. [Binding of the 17th century] Restoration to the head and spine. Provenance: n°131 of the sale of rare books by the bibliophile Antoine Rochebilière (1811-1881) It was in May 1882 that the catalogue of the rare books composing the library of Mr. Antoine Rochebilière was published, and the sale took place from May 31 to June 6 and from June 23 to July 2. This catalogue, drawn up by the bookseller A. Claudin, consists of two volumes in-16, under blue-green cover, printed on rather bad paper, with some copies on Hollande laid paper.