1681 Rare Latin French Book Bible - The Book of Proverbs - Les Proverbes de Salomon.

 

Author: Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy. 
Title: Les Proverbes de Salomon traduits en François. Avec une explication tirées des SS. Pères, & des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques. 
Language: Text in Latin and French.
Publisher: À Paris, Chez Pierre Le Petit, 1681.
Size: 8 " X 5 "
Pages:  (52), 783 pages
Binding: Very good full calf leather binding (hinges fine, overall scuffed and worn - as shown) under a protective mylar cover .
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare staining and foxing).
Illustrations: Including a beautiful frontis illustration of Salomon.

Estimate: (USD 150 - USD 200)

The book: Original 17th century French Latin edition of The Book of Proverbs (Hebrew: מִשְלֵי, Míshlê (Shlomoh), "Proverbs (of Solomon)") -- the second book of the third section (called Writings) of the Hebrew Bible and a book of the Christian Old Testament. When translated into Greek and Latin, the title took on different forms: in the Greek Septuagint (LXX) it became Παροιμίαι Paroimiai ("Proverbs"); in the Latin Vulgate the title was Proverbia, from which the English name is derived.