BOSSUET. Works of Messire Jacques-Benigne Bossuet.... Lot 28

BOSSUET. Works of Messire Jacques-Benigne Bossuet. Paris, Jean-Baptiste Coignard, Antoine Boudet, 1748-1749. 11 volumes (out of 12) in-4, bound in marbled calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red edges (period binding). Verlaque, p. 102. Second rare collective edition of Bossuet's works, after the one given between 1743 and 1747. According to Verlaque, "there are some changes in the prefaces, the most notable is in volume XI, on the letter to the nuns of Port-Royal". The edition is illustrated with a portrait of Bossuet engraved by Edelinck after Rigault and 12 bands, some of them repeated, drawn by Cochin fils and engraved by himself, Tardieu fils and Haussard le jeune]. Followed by : BOSSUET. Defensio declarationis conventus Cleri Gallicani An. 1682. De ecclesiastica potestate. Amsterdam, sumptibus Societatis, 1745. 2 volumes in-4, bound in marbled calf, spine decorated, red edges (binding of the time). Followed by : BOSSUET. Defense of the declaration of the Assembly of the Clergy of France of 1682. Touching the ecclesiastical power. Amsterdam, at the expense of the Company, 1745. 3 volumes in-4, bound in marbled calf, spine decorated, red edges (period binding). Followed by : BOSSUET. Posthumous works of Messire Jacques-Benigne Bossuet. To serve as a supplement to the seventeen volumes of his works, formerly published in-4°. Amsterdam, aux Dépens de la Compagnie, 1753. 3 volumes in-4, bound in marbled calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red edges (period binding). Nice set of 19 of the 20 volumes of Bossuet's complete works. Volume 8 is missing. Some dulling of the headbands and corners.