Les Confessions de S. Augustin, Traduites en Francois Avec le Latin a coste, reueu & corrige exactement sur douze anciens Manuscrits, & des Notes a la fin, ou l'on rend raison des principales corrections. St. Augustine ; D'Andilly, Arnauld [trans.] Biography,Fine Bindings,Philosophy and Religion

FRENCH TEXT. Fourth edition. [xii], 810, [17 index], [21 Latin translations] pp. Bound in a recent brown speckled calf, with blind-tooled borders to boards and raised bands, red leather label and gilt lettering and devices to spine. Occasional spots and a few small water stains to edges of leaves. Msr. Arnauld Doctor in Theology at the Maison de Sorbonne. St. Augustine's confessions is widely seen as the first Western autobiography ever written, detailing his conversion to Christianity. A nice copy from the early modern period of this highly influential work. 8vo.