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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: A Paris, Chez la Veuve de Charles Savreux, 1672. Second edition (stated).
Size: 7.5 " X 5 ".
Pages:  (52), 783 pages.
Binding: Good original full calf leather binding (hinges worn but tight - as shown, upper and lower part of spine worn - as shown,  overall scuffed and worn - as shown) under a protective mylar cover. 
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light staining and foxing - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the beautiful frontispiece illustration of Salomon.

Estimate: (USD 200 - USD 250)

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.