HUET, PIERRE DANIEL Demonstratio evangelica, adserenisimum delphinum , Quarto editio ad auctore recognita, castigata, & amplificata Accesit auctoris tractatus De paradiso terrestri nunc primum Latine.Leipzig, Thomas Fritsch, 1694.
2 engraved printer's vignets + 1 folded map of Paradiso terrestri. Parchment binding. 4°.(LVIII) 1187, (79), 69 (7) pp. *endpapers a bit foxed, pages partly browned, map also a bit browned, good condition*
Pierre Daniel Huet (French) Latin: Huetius; 8 February 1630 - 26 January 1721) was a French churchman and scholar, editor of the Delphin Classics, founder of the Académie de Physique in Caen (1662 - 1672) and Bishop of Soissons from 1685 to 1689 and afterwards of Avranches. (....)
He issued one of his major works, the Demonstratio evangelica, in 1679. At Aulnay he wrote his Questiones Aletuanae (Caen, 1690),[2] his Censura philosophiae Cartesianae (Paris, 1689), his Nouveau mémoire pour servir à l'histoire du Cartésianisme (New Memoirs to Serve The History of Cartesianism, 1692), and his discussion with Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux on the Sublime.