New, posthumous, edition of the magnum opus of Adrien Baillet (1649-1706).<\/p>\n
A great scholar who was successively regent of a college, country vicar, and then librarian of the famous collector and bibliophile Chr\u00e9tien Fran\u00e7ois de Lamoignon,whose collection he compiled in a catalogue raisonn\u00e9. He was an insatiable reader and researcher, Baillet is notably known as the first biographer of Ren\u00e9 Descartes. His work on the Vies des Saints was excluded by the Church. The censors felt that Baillet was too close to the ideas of the reformers by dismissing the miracles that he did not believe to be true.<\/p>\n
Spine faded and slighly rubbed.<\/p>\n
Provenance: Rohan-Chabot family (cot of arms).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
10 volumes 4to (252 x 193 mm) engraved portrait frontispiece, 8 nn.l., 489, CLVII for volume I; 2 nn.l. , XXXX, 454 pp., 1 nn.l., 407 pp. for volume II; 2 nn.l., 815, XXII pp. for volume III; 2 nn.l., XXVII, 931 pp. for volume IV; 2 nn.l., 492, 222 pp., 1 nn.l. for volume V; 2 nn.l., XVIII, 331 pp., 1 nn.l., 34, 447 pp. for volume VI ; 2 nn.l., XXXVI, 681 pp. for volume VII; 2 nn.l., XX, 754 pp. for the volume VIII ; 2 nn.l., XXXII, 304, 298 pp. for the volume IX; 2 nn.l., 400, 280, 78 pp., 1 nn.l. for volume X. Contemporary polished calf, Rohan-Chabot coat of arms on the corners, spine with raised bands, red edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":73815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[544],"product_tag":[1267,1265],"class_list":{"0":"post-73822","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-literature","7":"product_tag-binding","8":"product_tag-christianity","9":"pa_auteur-baillet-adrien-2","10":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Adrien BAILLET","chapeau":"The Rohan-Chabot copy","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Jacques Chardon, 1739","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n