PAINLEVÉ (Paul). Fêtes du tricentenaire de la naissance de B - Lot 21

PAINLEVÉ (Paul). Fêtes du tricentenaire de la naissance de Blaise Pascal celebrées à Clermont-Ferrand le 8 juillet 1923. Speech delivered on behalf of the Académie des Sciences by M. Paul Painlevé, member of the Institut. Coulommiers, impr. Paul Brodard, 1924. One volume in-12 square, half-maroquin with corners, 5-rib spine, covers and spine preserved, gilt head (binding signed YSEUX, sc. de Thierry-Simier". (2) ff., 28 pp. Slight scattered foxing. First edition printed in an edition of 1025 copies, this one on Arches paper, enriched with an autograph dispatch from Paul Painlevé to "l'ambassadeur de Fleuriau" [ Aimé Joseph de Fleuriau (1870 - 1938), French ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1924 to 1933].