Discours sur l'Histoire Universelle, a Monseigneur Le Dauphin: Pour Expliquer la Suite de la Religion; & les Changemens des Empires. Premier Partie. Depuis le Commencement du Monde jusqu'a l'Empire de Charlemagne

Discours sur l'Histoire Universelle, a Monseigneur Le Dauphin: Pour Expliquer la Suite de la Religion; & les Changemens des Empires. Premier Partie. Depuis le Commencement du Monde jusqu'a l'Empire de Charlemagne

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

Paris: Chez Laurent Durand,

rue S. Jacques, à Saint Landry, & au Griffon

Avec Privilege de sa Majeste

1744

Nouvelle Edition

This book has marbled leather covers with a narrow, nearly invisible, blind stamped line around the edge. The spine has a red leather insert in the second compartment with the title gilt stamped on it and a decorative gilt border. The next compartment down has the volume number in gilt while the other compartments (between the remaining raised bands) are a floral motif. The edges of the covers have been gilt stamped with a line pattern that has mostly rubbed off from shelf-wear.
Red paint was flicked at the edges of the textblock leaving dots of red color. Sewn into the top of the headcap is a blue ribbon to use as a bookmarker. The endpapers are a snail/French curl marble pattern in blue, red, white, and yellow that is crisp in some places and fading in others.
The paper is made of old rags and the type has bitten into the paper leaving indentations that can be felt with a finger. The text includes both raised capitals at the start of new chapters, and side-notes scattered throughout.
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Jacques-Benigne Bossuet was a French Jesuit Catholic Bishop who defended the rights of the French church to have autonomy from the Vatican, and preached and wrote against the beliefs of French Protestants.
This work is a history book intended for the Dauphin of France whose education was put under Bousset's tutelage. Bousset lived from 1627-1704.

History

SPECIAL D18 .B67 1744

Hardcover book, 6.5 x 4 inches

French

This book can be seen in the photographs, Display Case 1a and Display Case 1b.

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