DEVIC (Claude) and VAISSÈTE (Joseph). Histoire... Lot 29

[DEVIC (Claude) and VAISSÈTE (Joseph). Histoire générale de Languedoc avec des notes et les pièces justificatives [...]. Paris, Jacques Vincent, 1730, volume one only (out of 5), folio, XX-758 p., 214 col., [3]-1 bl. p., full contemporary brown calf, spine with richly decorated nerves (qq. snags, pages slightly browned). Double armorial bookplates; the first one of Alexandre de Johanne de Saumery (Paris, 1686-1747), ecclesiastic who was bishop of Rieux from 1718 to his death. Doctor in theology of the Sorbonne, he was deputy of the ecclesiastical province of Toulouse and designated as bishop of Rieux in 1718. The second bookplate is that of the castle of St Gery. Nice copy. Illustrations : Lettrines and historiated headers in each book, culs-de-lampe; Double leaves: map with colored delimitations ("Gallia bracata seu Narbonensis [...].); Temple of Diane de Nismes; Maison quarrée de Nismes; Pont du Gard: Arènes de Nismes.- Old inscriptions (beginning of the second part). The "Histoire générale de Languedoc" is a work on the history of the province of Languedoc, written and published during the first half of the 18th century by the Benedictine fathers Dom Claude Devic and Dom Joseph Vaissète. It was then completed a first time by Alexandre Du Mège in the middle of the 19th century. Finally, it was entirely recast and published by a team of scholars for the Privat bookstore at the end of the 19th century, and reprinted several times. Although it is outdated in many respects, the "Histoire générale de Languedoc" remains valuable for the body of texts it reproduces, some of which were lost in the revolutionary turmoil, but also in retrospect for the innovations it brought to historical analysis.