Guillaume Desprez I (actif 1652-1708)

First bilingual edition translated and annotated by Le Maistre de Sacy. Ruled copy. Text in double columns.

Contemporary full burgundy morocco binding. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Roll tooling on edges and board-edges. All edges gilt. Trace of dampstain in lower margin of first leaves fading away, reappearing on some leaves in the middle and at the end.
Before appearing in its entirety in 1696 under the secular title Bible de Port-Royal, Pierre Thomas du Fossé gathered the various manuscripts left by Le Maistre de Sacy at his death in 1684 and published them punctually. He continued the unfinished work and published separately first the translations...

First edition. This copy has an autograph inscription from Pierre Nicole to his student and friend M. [Louis] Angran. It also contains two manuscript additions (pp. 48 and 329), most probably from the hand of the author.

Contemporary speckled sheep. Spine in six compartments with gilt fleurons. Gilt roulettes to head- and tail-pieces. All edges speckled red. Two little wormholes to spine, a few more to covers. Joints rubbed and a little cracked. Library label to pastedown.

Louis Angran (1622-1706), from an important family of magistrates near Port-Royal, with ties of kinship to the Arnaulds, was a student of Pierre Nicole alongside Jean Racine in the...