DOM CALMET (Augustin) - Dissertation historique & chrono - Lot 240

DOM CALMET (Augustin) - Dissertation historique & chronologique sur la suite des médailles des ducs et duchesse de la Maison Royale de Lorraine. Gravé par M. Ferdinand de Saint Urbain, chevalier du Premier Ordre Romain, dit de Christ, dont sa majesté le roy de Portugal est grand maître, Graveur des médailles et monnoyes de son altesse royale, son premier architecte, académicien honoraire des principales académies d'Europe. S.l. (Vienne), s.e., 1736; in-4, 4 ppnch. + 70 pp. full calf binding, 5-rib spine, edges painted red, red morocco title-piece. First edition, reprinted with the portrait suite. Antoine Calmet, Dom Augustin in religion, was born on February 26, 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 of 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). Noel 2806. Consultant: Monsieur Philippe HENRY