1690 Rare Book Set - Books of Kings from the Bible, complete in two volumes

Author: Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy.
Title: Les Deux Premiers Livres des Rois [and] Les Deux Derniers Livres des Roys.
Publisher: Paris, Guillaume Desprez, 1690. Second Edition (stated). Complete 2 volumes set.
Language: Text in French and Latin.
Size: 7.5" x 5".
Pages: 656, 844 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good stunning contemporary full speckled calf leather binding, the spines with raised bands richly gilt in compartments, with contrasting red morocco title labels (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown, ink stamp on the second blank page - as shown, the first title page bears early handwritten ownership inscriptions and ecclesiastical provenance marks indicating origin from a Carmelite convent library in Nancy - as shown).
Illustrations: Features detailed woodcut title vignettes and finely engraved headpieces at the start of each of the four Books of Kings. 

Estimate: (USD 500–750).

The book: This remarkable 1690 Parisian edition of the Books of Kings in French translation represents a rare and complete set of both the first two and last two books, as organized in the Catholic tradition. Issued by Guillaume Desprez, royal printer and bookseller, it features annotations drawn from the Church Fathers and ecclesiastical writers. The second edition status suggests its popularity and authority. Lavishly bound and illustrated, this set embodies both scholarly rigor and devotional utility in the wake of Counter-Reformation biblical publishing.

The author: Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy (1613–1684) was a key figure in the Port-Royal translation of the Bible into French and a leading voice of the Jansenist movement. Imprisoned in the Bastille for his beliefs, he nevertheless completed one of the most influential French versions of the Scriptures, lauded for its classical purity and spiritual clarity. His work helped shape devotional reading in France for more than a century.