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BOSSUET, Jacques-Bénigne

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History of the variations of the Protestant churches. Volume one [-second]. - Warnings to Protestants on the letters of the minister Jurieu against the history of the variations. Tome III-IV. Paris, Guillaulme Desprez & Jean Desessartz, 1730. 4 volumes in 3 volumes in-12 (166 x 93 mm) of 1 f.n.ch., XXXIII, 509 pp., 13 ff.n.ch. for volume I; 5 ff.n.ch., 509 pp, 15 ff.n.c. for volume II ; 8 ff.n.c., 364 2 ff.n.c. for volume III ; 11 ff.n.c. (without the false-title), 328 pp. for volume IV. Ivory vellum, smooth spine with handwritten title (contemporary binding). Verlaque, p. 39 (for the Variations only); see Brunet I, 1136. Good complete edition of the famous religious controversy between Bossuet and the pastor Pierre Jurieu. Opposed to the Protestant reformation, Bossuet enumerates the different reformed confessions and their founders without granting them the slightest divine inspiration. Nice copy.