Histoire des variations des Eglises protestantes

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 Protestant church could not be the church of Christ and the repository of faith.
A loose paper between the endpapers contains an explanatory note specific to the first edition; this stipulates that Bossuet and his publisher, having noticed the numerous errors and misprints in the printing, chose to correct them by hand. Thus, as will be noted, this copy indeed contains several manuscript corrections.