Fleury

1682 · rif. 504781 — Adrian Moetjens / Eugene Henry Fricx 1682. First Edition. Leather. VERY GOOD. Les Moeurs des Isreaelites printed 1682 second edition; '.' Chrestiens printed 1694 first edition. 12mo contemporary vellum edges stained in brown. 6 175 11 248 pp. 2 volumes complete in one originally published separately in their first editions. Contemporary ownership signature to FFEP uniform natural darkening of the vellum tips show some light wear and short chip to head of spine some typical foxing very sound and square otherwise with unmarked internal text. 'Claude Fleury was an eminent French Historian and divine. He was educated in law at the College of Clermont and became a counsellor of the Parliament of Paris in 1658 but subsequently joined the priesthood and acquired a great reputation for learning. He was made member of the Academy in 1696 and in 1707 obtained from Louis XIV the priory of Argenteuil which he left in 1716 to become confessor to Louis XV. His reputation rests chiefly upon his Church History in twenty volumes evincing a great historiographical talent and written from a Gallican point of view.' McClintock & Strong. Adrian Moetjens / Eugene Henry Fricx unknown