"Bossuet, Bishop Of Meaux (jacques-bénigne) - Complete Works. 1845, Beautiful Binding."
BOSSUET, BISHOP OF MEAUX (Jacques-Bénigne) - Complete Works of Bossuet. Paris, Lille, Besançon, Mequignon and Gaume, Lefort, Outhenin-Chalandre, 1845; in-4, frontispiece, XVI-770 + 772 + 678 + 683 + 682 + 736 + 809 + 778 + 763 + 799 + 782 + 371 + 417 pp., full plum box calf bindings, signed Wagner on the back of the first volume, spine adorned with 4 nerves, nets on the covers, interior lace, covers stamped with a medallion representing the arms of the city of Paris, gilt edges. The 12 volumes. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, author of the famous Oraisons Funèbres, tutor to the Dauphin Louis of France, was best known for his sermons (of which only about a third remain today, 200 out of about 600). A very fine copy in an exceptional binding.