Moeurs des Israélites et des Chrétiens

Abbé Fleury. Moeurs des Israélites et des Chrétiens. Lyon: De l’Imprimerie de Ballanche Père et Fils, 1810. Nouvelle Edition (New edition).
Octavo (5 1/4 x 8″). Original full calf rebacked with modern burgundy cloth. Paper edges marbled. Modern endpapers.

Originally published in two separate books “Moeurs des Israélites” (1681), and Moeurs des Chrétiens” (1682), “Moeurs des Israélites et des Chrétiens” is a comparison of Jewish and Christian practices by Abbé Claude Fleury (1640-1723), a leading French cleric and the confessor to Louis XV. The vast majority of Fleury’s section on Judaism deals with biblical Israel, with a brief discussion at the end as to how post biblical Judaism degenerated into Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes before moving on to Christianity, which Fleury saw as the true heir to the biblical religion.

Heavy rubbing to the original covers. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the Abbé Claude Fleury missing. Upper right part of page 83/84 chipped. Light water-staining to lower half of pages throughout. Text in French. Binding in overall good-, interior in fair to good condition. f to g. Hardcover. (40338) $60