Histoire ecclésiastique
By: Par Mr Fleury, prêtre, abbé du Loc-Dieu, sous-precepteur, de monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne & monseigneur le d'Anjou
Contributors: Fabre, Jean Claude, 1668-1753; Goujet, Claude-Pierre, 1697-1767
Publisher: Chez Jean Mariette, ruë Saint Jacques, aux Colomnes d'Hercules
Published: 1691
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: History; Discovery and exploration; Catholic Church; Catalogs, Booksellers'; Church history
Notes: Some volumes of 1-21 have imprint: A Paris, chez Jean Mariette, ruë Saint Jacques, aux Colonnes d'Hercules.

Begining with volume 21, the work was continued by Jean Claude Fabre and Claude Pierre Goujet.

Covers the history of the Catholic Church from 33 A.D.-1595; also includes numerous references to American exploration and settlement by Europeans.

Volumes 2 and 5 have title: Historie ecclesiastique. Par Mr. Fleury, prêtre, abbé du Loc-Dieu, ci-devant sous-precepteur du roy d'Espagne, de monseigneur le Duc de Borgogne & de monseigneur le Duc de Berry.

Volumes 3, 4, 6 7, 10, 12, 13, 15, and 17 have title: Histoire ecclesiastique. Par Mr. Fleury prětre, prieur d'Argenteüil, cy-devant sous-precepteur du roy d'Espagne, de monseigneur le Duc de Borgogne & de monseigneur le Duc de Berry.

Volumes 21-36 have title: Histoire ecclésiastique,pour servir de continuation à celle de monsieur l'abbé Fleury.

Volumes 21-24, 27-28, have imprint: A Paris, chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, ruë S. Jacques, à S. Thomas d'Aquin, vis-à-vis S. Yves.

Volumes 25-26, 30, 31, and 33 have imprint: A Paris, Quai des Augustins, chez Emery, à Saint Benoist. Saugrain pere, à la Fleur de Lys. Pierre Martin, à l'Ecu de France.

Volumes 29, 32,34 have imprint: A Paris, Quai des Augustins, chez Emery, à Saint Benoît. Saugrain pere, à la Fleur de Lys. Pierre Martin, à l'Ecu de France.

Volumes 35 and 36 have imprint: A Paris, chez Pierre-Alexandre Martin, surle Quay des Augustins, à l'Ecu de France.

Volumes are not dated consecutively; volume 1 printed in 1691; volumes 2-3 printed in 1713; volume 4 printed in 1714; volume 5 printed in 1697; volume 6 printed in 1699; volumes 7 and 8 printed in 1701; volume 9 printed in 1703; volume 10 printed in 1704; volume 11 printed in 1705; volume 12 printed in 1706; volume 13 printed in 1713; volume 14 printed in 1709; volumes 15 and 16 printed in 1719; volume 17 printed in 1714; volume 18 printed in 1719; volume 19 printed in 1717; volume 20 printed in 1720; volumes 21 and 22 printed in 1726; volume 23 printed in 1730; volume 24 printed in 1728; volumes 25 and 26 printed in 1729; volume 27 printed in 1732; volume 28 printed in 1730; volumes 29 and 30 printed in 1731; volume 31 printed in 1732; volume 32 printed in 1733; volumes 33 and 34 printed in 1734;volume 35 printed in 1737; volume 36 printed in 1738.

Pagination: v. 1: [28], 610, [14] p.; v. 2: [8], 622, [18] p.; v. 3: [8], 646, [26] p.; v. 4: [8], 674, [18] p.; v. 5: [8], 645, [19] p.; v. 6: [8], 624, [16] p.; v. 7: [8], 658, [22] p.; v. 8: xxix, [7], 643, [25] p.; v. 9: [32], 248, *-****, 249-456, 455-609, [1] p.; v. 10: [8], 480, 491-506, 505-584, 595-655, [19] p.; v. 11: [8], 688, [20] p.; v. 12: [8], 614, [18] p.; v. 13: [8], 34, [2], 392, 395-410, 409-472, 483-690, [20] p.; v. 14: [8], 734, [26] p.; v. 15: [8], 671, [21] p.; v. 16: [8], xxvii, [1], 686, [18] p.; v. 17: [8], 24, 666, [22] p.; v. 18: [8], 24, 654, [18] p.; v. 19: [10], xxv, [5], 562, [26] p.; v. 20: [8], xxiv, 648, [24] p.; v. 21: xiv, [2], XXXIV, [22], 344, 343-638, [20] p.; v. 22: xx, 646, [2] p.; v. 23: [24], 654 [i.e. 664] p.; v. 24: [20], 336, 339-594, [36] p.; v. 25: xxii, [2], 685, [3] p.; v. 26: [20], 594, [26] p.; v. 27: [24], 344, 347-624, [2] p.; v. 28: [24], 572, [28] p.; v. 29: [16], 734, [22] p.; v. 30: xix, [1], 710, [2] p.; v. 31: xix, [1], 950 [i.e. 650], [2] p.; v. 32: [18], 639, [37] p.; v. 33: xxi, [3], lix, [1], 570, [2] p.; v. 34: [18], 666, [42] p.; v. 35: [18], 668, [36] p.; v. 36: [16], 633, [23] p.

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Includes indexes following text of each volume.

Errata: v. 29, p. [20], 3rd count; v. 32, p. [35], 3rd count; v. 33, p. [1], 6th count; v. 34, p. [40], 3rd count; v. 35, p. [35], 3rd count.

Engraved printer's vignettes on title pages; head and tail pieces; initials.

Bookseller's advertisements: v. 7, p. [21-22], 3rd count; v. 25, p. [2], 4th count.

Cioranescu, A. 17 s., 30462.

European Americana 691/59.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: title page of volumes 1 through 20 have pieces of paper on foredge covering a ms. ownership inscription, which affects the text on the title pages of some of those volumes; volumes 21 through 34 have pieces of paper on title page covering a ms. ownership inscription which affects the text of some of these volumes; v. 22 has duplicate gathering 2T, p. 329-336, with a piece of paper at foot of duplicate p. 329 repairing a tear which affects last lines of text; also wanting gathering 2V, p. 337-344 in v. 22.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full calf and contemporary full speckled calf.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: E Bibliotheca Maj. Sem. Brugen [Seminary in Bruges, Belgium?]: book stamps on front flyleaves of volumes.