DOM CALMET (Augustin) - Notice de la Lorraine qui comprend l - Lot 452

DOM CALMET (Augustin) - Notice de la Lorraine qui comprend les duchez de Bar de Luxembourg, l'Electorat de Trèves, les trois évêchés, Metz, Toul Verdun; les Villes principales, autres lieux les plus célèbres, rangz par ordre alphabétique, orné de plusieurs inscriptions antiques figures en taille-douce, propres à illustrer l'histoire la religion anciennes de ces pays, avant l'établissement du christianisme. Nancy, Chez Louis Beaurain, 1756; in-folio, CXVI columns + 968 columns + supplement, corrections and additions + king's edict + state of towns, villages, hamlets, censes and other places + table. 12 engravings, bound in contemporary half calf, spines decorated with 5 raised bands, edges mottled, restorations to a head and tail. Complete with 12 hors-texte engravings. Antoine Calmet, Dom Augustin in religion, was born on February 26, 1672 in Ménil-la-Horgne near Commercy, Lorraine, into a modest family (his father was a blacksmith). A keen student from an early age, he was an 18th-century exegete and scholar from Lorraine, known as Dom Calmet, a Benedictine from the Congrégation de Saint-Vanne et Saint-Hydulphe. In 1728, Dom Calmet was appointed abbot of Senones, the capital of the principality of Salm. It was in the great Vosges abbey that he worked and lived the latter part of his life, maintaining a correspondence with numerous scholars. He died there on October 25, 1757. Dom Calmet left an immense body of work. His best-known work is his Histoire de Lorraine, the second edition of which was written in Senones. It was also in Senones that he wrote a now-forgotten work, a 17-volume Histoire universelle, on which Voltaire collaborated for a few days in 1753; a Bible in Latin and French, with a Commentaire littéral et critique sur tous les livres de l'Ancien et Nouveau Testament (Paris (1707-1716; 26 vol. in-4). The Commentaire, a major work by Abbé de Senones, who constantly returned to make corrections or check translations, was reproduced separately under the title Trésor d'antiquités sacrées et profanes, from 1722, in 9 volumes.