BOSSUET (Jacques-Bénigne) : Discours sur l'Histoire Universelle à Monseigneur le Dauphin Paris, Séb. Mabre-Cramoisy, 1681; in 4°, brown granite calf, spine with grotesque decoration, gilt fillets on the boards, speckled tr. binding of the time, Princeps edition of this superb work, which had a considerable influence, to the point that it made the admiration of Voltaire who was however not an unconditional admirer of Bossuet. Nice copy, complete with the portrait of the prelate engraved by Edelinck after Rigaud