CALMET (Dom Augustin) - Notice de la Lorraine qui comprend l - Lot 240

CALMET (Dom Augustin) - Notice de la Lorraine qui comprend les Duchez de Bar & de Luxembourg, l'Electorat de Trèves, les Trois Évêchés, Metz, Toul & Verdun ; les Villes principales, & autres lieux les plus célèbres, rangz par ordre alphabétique, orné de plusieurs inscriptions antiques & figures en taille-douce, propres à illustrer l'histoire & la religion anciennes de ces pays, avant l'établissement du christianisme. Nancy, Chez Louis Beaurin, 1756 ; 2 volumes in-folio, CXLIV pp. + 7 ff. of plates + 920 columns (460 pp.) + 224 columns (112 pp.) + CXVI pp. + 1 f.n.ch. + 4 ff. of plates (out of 5) + 1024 columns (512 pp.) + LXXV pp., contemporary half calf, spine ribbed and decorated with cold-stamped felurons, red edges (minor wear and tear to spine and boards, solid binding). First edition, illustrated with 11 out of 12 plates: the representation of Saint Mansuy's tomb is missing from the second volume. Wet-stamped bookplate on titles, with early handwritten annotations. A few 19th-century handwritten leaves have been added to the first volume. Volume III, undated, was probably published in 1762 by Dom Calmet's nephew, Dom Augustin Fangé, who succeeded him at Senones Abbey in 1757. Inside edges weak, first and last endpapers creased and torn. Ex-libris Arthur Benoit, probably the author of the handwritten notes bound into the first volume. Sold as is.