[Jansenism]. [PÂRIS (François de)]. Explication des commande - Lot 137

[Jansenism]. [PÂRIS (François de)]. Explication des commandemens de Dieu. A Paris, en la boutique de P. Le Petit, chez J. Villette, 1693. Two volumes in-12, contemporary red morocco, spine with 5 nerves, gilt title and tomaison, decorated caissons with small irons, decorated boards à la Duseuil, gilt roulette on edges and chasses, gilt edges on marbling, fine and discreet restorations (very slight rubbing on corners, light stain on one endpaper). Rare first edition of this work attributed to François Pâris (or de Pâris, 1690-1727), a Jansenist deacon, famous for the convulsion meetings held over his grave in the Saint-Médard cemetery in Paris. Trace of a removed f. at the end of t.1, which does not appear in the digitized ex. This copy does contain its two errata leaves. A fine, well-adjusted copy in an elegant deluxe binding. Provenance: René-Urbain-Pierre-Charles-Félix Enjubault de la Roche (Laval, 1737-1794), deputy to the Estates-General of 1789, who received it as a prize from the Collège de Laval (handwritten mention repeated on 2 endpapers).