DOM CALMET (Augustin), VENCE - Sainte bible en latin et en f - Lot 283

DOM CALMET (Augustin), VENCE - Sainte bible en latin et en françois, avec des notes littérales, critiques et historiques, des préfaces et des dissertations, tirées du commentaire de Dom Augustin Calmet, abbé de Senones, de Mr. l'abbé de Vence, & des auteurs les plus célèbres; pour faciliter l'intelligence de l'Écriture Sainte. Paris et Avignon, Chez Boudet et Desaint, Chez Mérande, 1773; in-4, approx. 500 pp. per volume, contemporary full marbled calf bindings, ornate smooth spines, edges painted red, red morocco title-pieces, bindings to be restored, wear and tear. All 17 volumes. Enriched with maps & figures. Second edition revised, corrected and enlarged with various new notes & dissertations. 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 Congrégation de Saint-Vanne et 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 17-volume Histoire universelle, on which Voltaire collaborated for a few days in 1753; and 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 the 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. The Notice de la Lorraine is a dictionary of the communes of Lorraine. Expert : M. Philippe HENRY