DOM CALMET (Antoine) - Histoire ecclésiastique et civile de - Lot 267

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 + 580 columns of proofs+ table and errata of the first volume + 1466 columns + DCLXXX columns of proofs + table + errata of the second volume + explanation of Lorraine coins + 4 plates of coins + XL + 580 + table + 480 + table + 496 + table., different and very damaged bindings. All 3 volumes. 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 from the Congregation of Saint-Vanne & 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 & 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 & critique sur tous les livres de l'Ancien & Nouveau Testament (Paris (1707-1716; 26 vol. in-4°). The Commentary, a major work by the Abbé de Senones, who constantly returned to make corrections or check translations, was reproduced separately under the title Trésor d'antiquités sacrées & 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. Copy complete with 45 plates. Proofs at the end of each volume. Expert : M. Philippe HENRY