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[Barbier, Hippolyte]. Biographie du clergé contemporain par un Solitaire. Tome I [-X]. Paris : A. Appert [vol. 10: Appert Fils et Vavasseur], 1841-1851. Complete in 120 installments in 10 volumes. Contemporary half morocco with gilt decorated spine and marbled endpapers. Small 8vo. 15x10 cm. Manuscript alphabetical name index at end of volume 10. Vignette on title-pages. With all 103 steelengraved full page portraits present; Very good set of a rare work. € 1250
Rare complete set containing 103 short biographies of known and lesser known Roman Catholic ministers from the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. Some biographical information about the compiler, the 'solitaire' abbé Barbier, about whom very little is known, is to be found in volume 10 (p. 452vv.), with his portrait opposite p. 433. Among the men presented are Migne, La Mennais, Lacordaire, Sieyes, Henri Grégoire and De Bonald. Each volume contains 12 installments that were issued separately in 36 pp. with a steelengraved portrait mostly done by Tailland. Our set contains all 103 biographies (some biographies consists of 2 or even 3 installments) and portraits, but certainty about about possible additional quires or preliminaries of each volume cannot be provided as bibliographical information and comparative sets are practically inaccesable. A separate prospectus (18 p.) for the series on papier rose is bound in volume 1. Some wear to extremeties, foxing and browning; one spine of volume 10 split (ca. 6 cm). (N.B. the installments of the last volume are misnumbered. The pagenumbering and the text of this volume are continuous and complete, but the nr. 113 is mentioned twice whereas nr. 115 is omitted); No complete copy in OCLC or British Libraries; Not in Dutch Central Catalog; not in KVK on-line; cf. BNF nr. 30054871.
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Estius; [Est, Willem Hessels van (1542-1613)]. Absolutissima in omnes beati Pauli et septem catholicas Apostolorum epistolas commentaria...autore Dn. Guilielmo Estio...accedunt huic novissimae editioni, praeter commodiorem totius operis dispositionem & accuratam recognitionem, textus sacer, Clementinae editionis..nec-non index novus...studio & Opera Jacobi Merlo-Horstii... Rothomagi (=Rouen) : apud Nicolaum Boucher, Eustachium Herault, Petrum Le Boucher, Franciscum Vaultier, 1709. 3 volumes in 2. I: (2), 4, (4), 571, (1 blank) pp.; II: (2), 573-1052 pp.; III (=epistolas catholicas): 1053-1268, (12 index and privilege from 1707) pp. Folio 27x40cm. Contemporary mottled calf with raised bands and gilt decorated spine, edges red, marbled endpapers; Some decorated initials, head- and tailpieces. Very nice copy. € 900
Willem Hessels van Est or Estius, famous commentator on the Pauline epistles, was born at Gorcum, Holland at a time of great excitement. Though the mildest of men, his whole life was spent amidst scenes of controversy and civil war. Luther was still in full vigour, Calvin was active at Geneva, and Europe was flooded with books and pamphlets violently attacking the Catholic Church. Very few writers did more to refute the reformer's biblical arguments than van Est. He studied classics in Utrecht and thence proceeded to Louvain, where he spent about twenty years in the study of philosophy, theology and Holy Scripture. During the last ten years therehe was professor of philosophy in one of the colleges. In 1580 he received the degree of Doctor of Theology. Est wrote what is considered the best history of the Martyrs of Gorcum, who were canonized by Pius IX in 1867. From this history we learn many details about him and his relatives. It is evident from the commentaries of Est that he was much influenced on questions of grace and free will by the teaching of his old professor, Baius; In 1582 he was made professor of theology at Douai, a position which he retained for thirty-one years. He was also for many years rector of the diocesan seminary and during the last eighteen years of his life chancellor of the University of Douai. He was afterwards styled doctor fundatissimus by Pope Benedict XIV. Most of Est's works, which were written in Latin, were not published until after his death. His greatest work is his "In omnes Divi Pauli et Catholicas Epistolas Commentarii" published originally in Douai, 1614-15. This work went through many editions of which the ones improved by Merlo Horstius from 1679 on, like our copy, are considered the best (Hurter; NNBW). In his commentaries he everywhere endeavours to arrive at the literal meaning of the author, with great judgement, acumen, and erudition. He refutes objections, as occasion arises, with calmness and freedom from passion. Only very slight wear to covers, edges and labels; volume III was issued without a separate title-page (cf. FRBNF31535331 and OCLC: 30578121); stain in lower margin of some quires in volume 2, else overall very clean internally. NNBW, VI, pp. 418-423; Hurter, I, fasc. I p. 344vv; 6 copies in NCC, 8 copies in OCLC (4 in the US);
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