[Rarebooks] FS: Bossuet's Defense of Absolute Monarchy

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

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.. vi, [7]-220; [viii], 120 pp. 
16mo. Full calf, spine decorated with gilt 
florals, brown morocco lettering piece, boards 
ruled in gilt, gilt turn ins, all edges red, 
marbled endpapers). First editions. Bibliographie 
Raisonne Des Oeuvres de Bossuet 114 (L'Esprit). 
Douret: Bibliographie bouillonnaise 53 (L'Esprit).

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. OCLC 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. A very good copy, small splits on head and 
heel of joints with minor loss, light foxing to 
verso of endpapers, else text bright. [36022] 
$500.00


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