" Beautiful Binding Of The 17th 'preliminary Dissertation Or Prolegomena On The Old Testament. 1699"
A large volume; a very fine copy in 8vo in full tinted calf, ribbed spine decorated with gilded ironwork with plumes in the compartments, garnet morocco title, pouched edges, marbled endpapers, printed in Paris at André Pralard, rue Saint-Jacques, on the Occasion. M. DC.XCIX. (1699), Remarkable copy preserved in its period binding for a subject that touches on the Old Testament: "Preliminary Dissertation or Prolegomena on the Bible, by Messire Louis Ellies Du-Pin, Doctor of Theology of the Faculty of Paris and Royal Professor of Philosophy ... A rigorous analytical text for a look at the Old Testament (vignette on the title of the Publisher). A fine piece from the Reign of Louis XIV