[NICOLE (Pierre)]: Les Imaginaires, ou lettres sur l'Hérésie - Lot 154

[NICOLE (Pierre)]: Les Imaginaires, ou lettres sur l'Hérésie imaginaire, volume I, containing the first ten, by Sr. de Damvilliers. Followed by: Les visionnaires ou seconde partie des lettres sur l'Hérésie imaginaire, containing the last eight. Liège, Adolphe Beyers, 1667. Two volumes. 7 by 13.2 cm. (28)-431; 495 pages. Later full tan calf, spines 4 nerfs decorated with cold motifs and gilt fillets, radiating lozenge and cold framing of the boards, with a gilt fillet. Spine slightly faded, otherwise very good condition. Very good condition inside. Edition à la Sphère. First edition printed by Daniel ELZEVIER. First collective edition of these 18 letters written in the style of the Provinciales (Willems 1377). In them, Nicole defends the theory that the Church has mistaken for a real heresy a heresy that, in fact, does not exist. The Jansenism she condemns is a chimera, since the five propositions censured by Jansenius are not to be found in it.