DOM CALMET (Antoine) - Histoire ecclésiastique et civile de - Lot 268

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 cession de la Lorraine, arrivé en 1737, inclusively. With supporting documents at the end. The whole enriched with geographical maps, city and church plans, seals, coins, medals, monumens, &c. Engraved in intaglio. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée par l'auteur; avec les portraits des ducs & duchesses de Lorraine d'après les médailles gravées par les ordres du duc Léopold. The Lorraine library. Nancy, Chez Leseure, 1745-1757 ; in-folio, CCC-902-LXXXVII + CXXII-LXXIV-617-CCCLII-XIV + CCXL-620-CCCLXXVIII + XXVIII-1048-84 + CCLXXVI-932-CCCLXXX + 1362-CCCCXVI + CCIV-CCLXIV-386-CCCCLXXXVIII columns, full contemporary marbled calf bindings, spines with 6 raised bands, speckled edges, volume 7 with different decoration. All 7 volumes. Ex-libris of the Capucins de Saint-Mihiel convent and stamp of the Bibliothèque du Centre d'étude Vanniste. 49 plates. In volume II, plate 8 is detached. 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 & 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. Expert : M. Philippe HENRY