Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne; Villiers, Marc-Albert de, Abbé, ed - L'Esprit de Bossuet, Ou Choix Des Pensées Tirées de Ses Meilleurs Ouvrages [Bound with] Principes Sur la Fidélité Due Aux Rois Extraits de M. Bossuet,... Dans Sa Politique Tirée de L'écriture Sainte... Par M. L'Abbé de Villiers. .

Bouillon & Paris, Aux Dépens de la Sociéte Typographique & De L'Imprimerie de d'Houry, 1771. First editions. Full calf, spine decorated with gilt florals, brown morocco lettering piece, boards ruled in gilt, gilt turn ins, all edges red, marbled endpapers. vi, [7]-220; [viii], 120 pp. 16mo. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704) was a French bishop and theologian in the court of Louis XIV, the "Sun King", a renowned orator and one of the most fervent defenders of absolute monarchy. Scarce. ABPC shows neither work at auction in the last half century, though a copy of L'Esprit de Bossuet was auctioned in Europe in 2004. See Delamarre, Louis, and Ferdinand Brunetière. "Jacques-Benigne Bossuet." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. OCLC shows six copies of L'Esprit de Bossuet but only one, at the BN France, of Principes sur la Fidélité due aux Rois. Bibliographie Raisonne Des Oeuvres de Bossuet 114 (L'Esprit). Douret: Bibliographie bouillonnaise 53 (L'Esprit). A very good copy, small splits on head and heel of joints with minor loss, light foxing to verso of endpapers, else text bright.

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