Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET

Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET

Born27 septembre 1627
Died12 avril 1704
LanguageFrench
NationalityFrance
Prédicateur et écrivain, membre de l'Académie française (élu en 1671). Évêque de Meaux. Auteur d'oraisons funèbres
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  • BOSSUET Jacobus Benignus
  • BOSSUET Jacopo Benigno
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BOSSUET, Jacques Bénigne
  1. Rare Romantic-era publisher's bindings
    Les saints Evangiles
    Pierre DASSANCE (Trad.) Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET (Pref.)

    Les saints Evangiles The Holy Gospels [followed by] Jerusalem and the Holy Places

    L. Curmer|Paris 1836|17.4 x 26.3 cm|Woodcut, Steel engraving (19th c.), Watercolor|Reliure de l'éditeur

    First edition of the Gospels in the translation by Pierre Dassance, illustrated with a chromolithographed frontispiece after a drawing by Langlois, engraved by Cyprien Jacquemin, an engraved title-page for each Gospel by Brevière, twelve steel-engraved plates after drawings by Tony Johannot, two hand-coloured maps, and ten engravings after drawings by Charles Marville on chine. Numerous ornamental borders, tailpieces, headpiece vignettes and initials. The frontispiece and the vignette with the initial letter on page IX of the first volume are gilt and hand-coloured.

    Publisher's bindings in full long-grain midnight-blue morocco, covers blind-stamped, gilt central plaques on each...

    €1,200
  2. Beautiful Cathedral Bindings
    Discours sur l'histoire universelle par J.-B. Bossuet, évêque de Meaux ; précédé d'une notice littéraire, par M. Tissot, Membre de l'Académie française.
    Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET, after Jean-Louis-Ernest MEISSONIER

    Discours sur l'histoire universelle par J.-B. Bossuet, évêque de Meaux ; précédé d'une notice littéraire, par M. Tissot, Membre de l'Académie française. [Discourse on Universal History]

    L. Curmer, éditeur, 49, rue de Richelieu, au premier.|Paris s. d. [1839]|19.1 x 29 cm|Relié

    A fine edition complete with all 12 steel engravings with tissue guards after paintings by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Philippe de Champaigne, and Hyacinthe Rigaud, and its chromolithographic title page. Leafs containing the Discourse on Universal History  framed by floral, zoomorphic, figural and armorial interlaced borders. This copy is further enhanced with elaborate decorated initials and tailpieces, and a black-and-white frontispiece opening each part.

    €800
  3. De nova quaestione tractatus tres. I. Mystici in tuto. II. Schola in tuto. III. Quietismus redivivus
    Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET

    De nova quaestione tractatus tres. I. Mystici in tuto. II. Schola in tuto. III. Quietismus redivivus

    Apud Johanem Anisson|Lutetiae Parisiorum [Paris] 1698|12.50 x 19 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Full fine red morocco binding, late 19th century, unsigned. Spine with raised bands decorated with blind fillets. Title, date and place gilt. Blind fillet frame on covers. Rich inner decorative border. Edges gilt. Light traces of rubbing to headcaps, on one raised band. Small nick to upper cover. Very handsome copy in an unsigned master binding.
    Bossuet composed this treatise to appease the fears of theologians in France and Rome, who feared that the condemnation of Fénelon's Maximes des Saints would lead to a similar condemnation of ancient mystical authors who had written about charity and passive prayer. In the first part, Bossuet discusses mystical authors...
    €500
  4. Traité de la communion sous les deux especes
    Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET

    Traité de la communion sous les deux especes

    Chez Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy|à Paris 1682|8.50 x 15.50 cm|relié
    First edition, quite rare. A title vignette and one text figure.
    Full straight-grained chocolate brown morocco binding ca 1860. Spine with raised bands decorated. Red morocco title and volume labels. Covers decorated with several framing fillets and rolls and a wide floral frieze. Interior frieze. Edges gilt. Paper of perfect freshness, possibly washed. Very handsome copy in unsigned master binding.
    The single species designates communion by bread or wine. It was in 1681 that Pierre Jurieu published his treatise on communion in a single species in the name of Protestantism. One year later, Bossuet wrote a rigorous treatise proving by certain causes that the church practiced the...
    €650
  5. Relation sur le quiétisme
    Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET

    Relation sur le quiétisme

    Chez Jean Anisson|à Paris 1698|8 x 14.80 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Contemporary full brown mottled sheep binding. Spine with raised bands and ornate decoration. Brown morocco title-label. One wormhole to lower joint at head. Foxing. First leaves frayed at outer margin.
    Quietism is a mystical doctrine that considers the most perfect communion with God occurs only when the soul is in a state of quietude. The quarrel that opposed the Quietists to Bossuet takes shape in this work where Bossuet refutes one by one the arguments of the Quietists led by Fénelon and Mme Guyon.
    €400
  6. Sermon presché a l'ouverture de l'assemblée generale du clergé de France. Le 9. novembre 1681.
    Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET

    Sermon presché a l'ouverture de l'assemblée generale du clergé de France. Le 9. novembre 1681.

    Chez Frédéric Léonard|à Paris 1682|8 x 15 cm|relié

    First edition.
    Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Brown sheep title-label. Rubbing, scratches to boards. Light scattered foxing to the first leaves. Cut to outer margin of the last 2 leaves over 1 cm.
    The author's only published sermon, on the unity of the church. From the opening words Bossuet links the Catholic church to Jewish history.

    €300
  7. Avertissements aux protestans sur les lettres du ministre Jurieu contre L'histoire des variations [Ensemble] L'antiquité eclaircie sur l'immutabilité de l'estre divin & sur l'égalité des trois personnes [Ensemble] Etat present des controverses et de la religion protestante
    Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET

    Avertissements aux protestans sur les lettres du ministre Jurieu contre L'histoire des variations [Ensemble] L'antiquité eclaircie sur l'immutabilité de l'estre divin & sur l'égalité des trois personnes [Ensemble] Etat present des controverses et de la religion protestante

    Chez la veuve de Sébastien Marbre-Cramoisy|à Paris 1689|18 x 24.50 cm|relié
    First edition for the entirety of these sequential works. Each of the 5 Avertissements has a specific title page, the fourth and fifth dated 1690; the seven texts have the particularity of having continuous pagination, even though they did not appear on the same date, the last two being dated 1691 (L'antiquité eclaircie actually corresponds to the sixth avertissement, the seventh part Etat present des controverses forming the third and final part of the sixth avertissement. The last two texts are published by Jean Anisson and no longer by Sébastien Cramoisy. Publishers' devices on title pages, stork for the first, fleur-de-lys for Anisson.
    Full dark green...
    €1,800
  8. Defensio declarationis celeberrimae quam de potestate ecclesiastica sanxit clerus Gallicanus XIX. Martii MDCLXXXII
    Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET

    Defensio declarationis celeberrimae quam de potestate ecclesiastica sanxit clerus Gallicanus XIX. Martii MDCLXXXII

    Andrea Chevalier|Luxemburgi [Luxembourg] • (Luxembourg) 1730|20 x 25.50 cm|2 tomes en un volume relié
    First edition illustrated with an unsigned portrait frontispiece and a title vignette. Title page in red and black. Printed in double columns.
    Contemporary full marbled sheep binding. Raised band spine richly and beautifully decorated. Havana morocco title-label. Roulette on leading edges. One cut at head. Rubbing. Some gatherings browned. Handsome copy.
    General Assembly of the French clergy on March 19, 1682.
    €700
  9. Histoire des variations des Eglises protestantes. Avertissements aux protestans sur les lettres du ministre Jurieu, contre l'histoire des variations
    Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET

    Histoire des variations des Eglises protestantes. Avertissements aux protestans sur les lettres du ministre Jurieu, contre l'histoire des variations

    Chez Guillaume Desprez|à Paris 1740|10 x 17.30 cm|4 volumes reliés
    New edition, after the original quarto published in 1688. Les Avertissemens have been added to this edition to complete it.
    Full marbled blonde calf bindings. Raised band spines with ornaments. Red morocco title and volume labels. Small lacks to head of volume 3. A wormhole to the upper joint at foot of volume 1, another to the lower joint. One corner slightly bumped. Head caps rubbed. Yellow dampstain traces in the table of contents of volume 4. Handsome copy.
    One of Bossuet's major works, in which the author summarizes the controversies against the Protestant church through a key concept: variation. The multiple destinies and variations around the same doctrine must...
    €400
  10. Discours sur l'histoire universelle
    Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET

    Discours sur l'histoire universelle

    Lefèvre|Paris 1836|14 x 22.50 cm|relié
    Illustrated edition with an engraved portrait of Bossuet as frontispiece.
    Full glazed aubergine calf binding, spine slightly lightened with four raised bands set with double gilt fillets decorated with double gilt compartments enhanced with gilt typographical motifs, gilt roulettes on the headcaps, boards framed with a wide blind-tooled dentelle and two gilt fillets, gilt initials struck at the centers of the boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, fine gilt dentelle frame on the pastedowns, gilt fillets on the leading edges, one lower corner slightly bumped, marbled edges, superb contemporary binding.
    Pen gift inscription at the head of an endpaper as a present, some foxing.
    €300
  11. Histoire des variations des Eglises protestantes
    Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET

    Histoire des variations des Eglises protestantes

    Chez la veuve de Sébastien Marbre-Cramoisy|à Paris 1688|19 x 26 cm|2 volumes reliés
    First edition. Printer's device on title page, with two storks. A beautiful title vignette in copper engraving in each volume and a historiated initial.
    Full brown sheep binding. Raised spine richly decorated. Tawny morocco title labels, gilt volume numbers. Headcap of volume I partly worn, that of volume II appears restored. Rubbing and stains on boards. Restored corners. Browning and foxing on some leaves. Upper joint split at tail of volume I.
    One of Bossuet's major works, in which the author summarizes the controversies against the Protestant church through a key concept: variation. The multiple destinies and variations around the same doctrine must demonstrate to us that the...
    €850
  12. Histoire des variations des Eglises protestantes. Avertissemens aux protestans sur les lettres du Ministre Jurieu contre l'Histoire des variations
    Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET

    Histoire des variations des Eglises protestantes. Avertissemens aux protestans sur les lettres du Ministre Jurieu contre l'Histoire des variations

    Chez Guillaume Desprez • et Jean Desessartz|Paris 1717|10 x 17 cm|3 volumes reliés
    New edition, after the first edition published in 1688 in 2 volumes quarto.
    Contemporary full brown grained calf binding. Spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt compartments and fleurons, red morocco title and volume labels, leading edges underlined with blind tooling. All edges red.
    Two head caps worn, one headband detached at the tail of the first volume and corners very slightly bumped.
    One of Bossuet's major works, in which the author summarizes the controversies against the Protestant church through a key concept: variation. The multiple destinies and variations around the same doctrine must demonstrate to us that the Protestant church could not be the church of...
    €450
  13. Relation sur le quiétisme
    Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET

    Relation sur le quiétisme

    Chez Jean Anisson|à Paris 1698|19.70 x 12.50 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Contemporary full calf binding, decorated spine with raised bands. Minor defects to headcaps, 2 corners split, a dark stain on the upper cover.
    Quietism is a mystical doctrine which considers that the most perfect communion with God only occurs when the soul is in a state of quietude. The quarrel which opposed the quietists to Bossuet takes shape in this work where Bossuet refutes one by one the arguments of the quietists led by Fénelon and Mme Guyon.
    €400
  15. Oraisons funèbres. - Panégyrique
    Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET

    Oraisons funèbres. - Panégyrique

    Gallimard • , Bibliothèque de La Pléiade|Paris 2007|10.50 x 18 cm|reliure de l'éditeur sous étui souple et cartonné
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  16. Oraisons funèbres. - Panégyrique
    Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET

    Oraisons funèbres. - Panégyrique

    Gallimard • , Bibliothèque de La Pléiade|Paris 1979|10.50 x 18 cm|reliure de l'éditeur sous étui souple et cartonné
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  19. Recueil d'oraisons funebres
    Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET

    Recueil d'oraisons funebres

    Chez la veuve de Sébastien Marbre-Cramoisy|à Paris 1689|9.50 x 16.50 cm|relié
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  27. Sermons
    Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET

    Sermons

    Garnier frères|Paris 1872|11.50 x 19 cm|4 volumes reliés
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  28. Oraisons funèbres
    Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET

    Oraisons funèbres

    Garnier frères|Paris 1872|11.50 x 19 cm|relié
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  30. Oraisons funebres
    Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET, Esprit FLÉCHIER

    Oraisons funebres

    Chez Sébastien Marbre-Cramoisy|à Paris 1680|9 x 17 cm|relié
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  45. Les Saints Evangiles
    Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET

    Les Saints Evangiles

    Hachette et Cie|Paris 1873|39 x 56 cm|2 volumes reliés
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  46. Oraisons funèbres panégyriques
    Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET

    Oraisons funèbres panégyriques

    Gallimard • , Bibliothèque de La Pléiade|Paris 1951|10.50 x 17.50 cm|reliure souple de l'éditeur
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