Lemaistre de Sacy — Poem of St Prosper against the ingrates — Widow Durand — 1647

Paris, at the widow Martin Durand's, 1647. In-4° (18 x 25 cm.). 10 ff. + 276pp. Original edition. Solidly restored tan rooted calfskin binding. Back to nerves. Boxes decorated with gilding with a very faded plant motif. Gold title. Guards redone. Wetness on the title page which bears a wet ex-libris stamp of a Dijon Jesuit high school. Very rare foxing. A wrongly numbered page (see photos above).

The work consists of a long foreword by the translator — Lemaistre de Sacy — followed by approvals (including that of the Doctors dated October 1646); from the translation into verse with the Latin opposite, then from the translation into prose; it ends with the epigrams of Saint Prosper (On his poem against the ingrates; Against an author who dared to repeat Saint Augustine; Against the same or some other opponent of this Saint ; Epitaph of the heresy of Nestorius and Pelagius: the heresy of Nestorius speaks).