L'histoire du vieux et du nouveau testament, Representée avec des figures et explications edifiantes, tirées des SS. Peres. Dédiée à Monseigneur le Dauphin. Par le Sieur de Royaumont, Prieur de Sombreval.
Paris.
Chez Pierre le Petit, 1712.
Nouvelle edition [i.e. new edition].
Quarto.
[16], 552pp. Title in red and black. With 267 engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities heavily rubbed. Pastedowns sprung, short tear to lower corner of leaf Ii1, very occasional light spotting.
An early eighteenth-century edition of the 'Royaumont' Bible history, first published in 1670. The authorship has been variously ascribed to Nicolas Fontaine (1625-1709) or Isaac Le Maistre de Sacy (1613-1684); it is likely that the two Jansenists collaborated on this work during their imprisonment in the Bastille.
£ 375.00
Antiquates Ref: 31647
