HISTORY and miscellaneous. 18th century. -Set of approximate - Lot 142

HISTORY and miscellaneous. 18th century. -Set of approximately 30 volumes; some defects and incompleteness. Biblia sacra. Constantiæ, sumptibus Jacobi Friderici Bez sociorum, 1770. 4tomes in 2forts volumes in-folio, printing on 2columns, cold-stamped sowskin on wood, metal clasps, red edges; some wetness and tears (period binding). Bilingual edition comprising the Latin text of the Vulgate in its Sixtoclementine version, with a German translation prepared by a group of Benedictines from Ettenheimmünster Abbey under the direction of Germain Cartier. It includes an extensive critical apparatus borrowed notably from the Church Fathers, and, as an appendix, a dissertation on the location of the terrestrial paradise written by Germain Cartier's brother, Gall Cartier, also a monk at Ettenheimmünster Abbey. Numerous copper-engraved plates outside the text. -LeClerc (Sébastien). Pratique de la géométrie sur le papier et sur le terrain. ÀParis, chez Claude Jombert, 1716. Small in-12, glazed brown marbled calf (contemporary binding). Copper-engraved plates outside text, most on both sides. -LeClerc (Sébastien). Traité de géométrie théorique et pratique, à l'usage des artistes. ÀParis, chez Ch.Ant. Jombert, 1764. In-8, ornate marbled brown calf. Copper-engraved illustration, including out-of-text plates (usually folding) and vignettes in the text. -Orléans (Charlotte-Élisabeth de Bavière, duchesse d'). Fragmens de lettres originales. ÀHambourg, et se trouve à Paris, chez Maradan, 1788. 2 volumes in one in-12, brown marbled calf (period binding). Partial first edition of the letters of the famous Princess Palatine. -Satyre Ménippée, de la vertu du catholicon d'Espagne, et de la tenue des États de Paris. ÀRatisbone, chez les héritiers de Mathias Kerner, 1714. 3volumes small in-8, grained fawn calf (period binding). Copper-engraved plates out of text, including several fold-outs. Provenance: "l'avocat g[é]n[ér]al Thierry... 1715" then "1789Maufoux" (handwritten bookplates). -Etc.