DOM CALMET (Antoine) - Histoire ecclésiastique et civile de - Lot 237

DOM CALMET (Antoine) - Histoire ecclésiastique et civile de Lorraine qui comprend ce qui s'est passé de plus mémorable dans l'Évêché de Trèves & dans les Évêchés de Metz, Toul & Verdun, depuis l'entrée de Jules Cesar dans les Gaules, jusqu'à la mort de Charles V, duc de Lorraine et de Bar. Nancy, Jean-Baptiste Cusson, 1728 ; in-folio, preface + CCXL columns + 1268 columns + table and errata of the first volume + XV explication des sceaux de Lorraine + explication des monnoyes & médailles, gravées dans l'histoire de Lorraine + 1466 columns + table + errata of the second volume + CCVIII columns chronological list of the principal abbeys of the province of Trier or the three bishoprics, of Metz, Toul and Verdun + 1340 columns + table of contents + errata and privileges XL + 580 columns + 480 columns + 496 columns, full contemporary marbled calf bindings, spines adorned with a 6-nerve iron bearing the coat of arms of the House of Lorraine, speckled edges, red morocco title-pieces, bindings in very good condition. All 4 volumes. Antoine Calmet, Dom Augustin in religion, was born in 1672 in Ménil-la-Horgne near Commercy, Lorraine, into a modest family (his father was a blacksmith). A keen student from an early age, he was an 18th-century exegete and scholar from Lorraine, known as Dom Calmet, a Benedictine from the Congregation of Saint-Vanne and Saint-Hydulphe. In 1728, Dom Calmet was appointed abbot of Senones, the capital of the principality of Salm. It was in the great Vosges abbey that he worked and lived the latter part of his life, maintaining a correspondence with numerous scholars. He died there on October 25, 1757. Dom Calmet left an immense body of work. His best-known work is his Histoire de Lorraine, the second edition of which was written in Senones. It was also in Senones that he wrote a now-forgotten work, a 17-volume Histoire universelle, on which Voltaire collaborated for a few days in 1753; a Bible in Latin and French, with a Commentaire littéral et critique sur tous les livres de l'Ancien et Nouveau Testament (Paris (1707-1716; 26 vol. in-4) - The Commentaire, a major work by Abbé de Senones, who constantly returned to make corrections or check translations, was reproduced separately under the title Trésor d'antiquités sacrées et profanes, from 1722, in 9 volumes. The reprinting of this Histoire ecclésiastique & civile de la Lorraine, Nancy, 1728, in 1745-1757, brought Dom Calmet into conflict with the censors. Our volume contains 45 plates, 11 plates for the first volume, 21 for the second and 13 for the third, and the proof volume. A superb copy. Consultant: Monsieur Philippe HENRY