DOM CALMET (Antoine) - Notice de la Lorraine qui comprend le - Lot 269

DOM CALMET (Antoine) - Notice de la Lorraine qui comprend les duchez de Bar & de Luxembourg, l'Electorat de Trèves, les trois évêchés, Metz, Toul & Verdun; les Villes principales, & autres lieux les plus célèbres, rangz par ordre alphabétique, orné de plusieurs inscriptions antiques & figures en taille-douce, propres à illustrer l'histoire & la religion anciennes de ces pays, avant l'établissement du christianisme. Nancy, Chez Louis Beaurain, 1756; in-folio, explanation of the plates in the first volume + CXLIV columns + 946 columns + 7 plates + explanation of the plates in the second volume + CXVI columns + 968 columns + supplement, corrections and additions + edict of the king + state of towns, villages, hamlets, censes and other places + table + 5 plates, bound in full contemporary marbled calf, 6-rib spine decorated with fleurons, edges speckled, minor wear. The 2 volumes. Copy complete with plates. 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 Commentaire, 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. Expert : M. Philippe HENRY