JACQUES BEGNINE BOSSUET. Discours sur l'histoire universelle. À Monseigneur le Dauphin: Pour expliquer la suite de la Religion les changemens des Empires. Première Partie. From the beginning of the World to the Empire of Charlemagne. By Messire Jacque Benigne Bossuet, Evesque de Condom, Conseiller du Roy en ses Conseils, cy-devant Précepteur de Monseigneur le Dauphin, premier Aumosnier de Madame la Dauphine. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Bossuet. Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1681. In-8, bradel paper binding, binding paper missing from spine; title page.

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