Baillet, Adrien. — The Lives of the Saints, Compiled from th - Lot 329

Baillet, Adrien. — The Lives of the Saints, Compiled from the Most Authentic and Reliable Accounts That Have Survived, Arranged According to the Order of the Calendars and Martyrologies, with an Account of Their Worship as Established in the Catholic Church, and the history of the other feasts of the year. Paris, Louis Roulland, 1704. 3 folio volumes bound in full contemporary calfskin, spined with decorative raised bands, red title and month labels—5 cap bands worn down, 4 jaws worn, 7 holes in the raised bands or covers, skin peeling—Vol. I: [4 ff.], 152 columns (Discourse on the History of the Lives of the Saints), [1 f. priv. alpha table], 434 col. (January), XX col. (critical table for January), 378 col. (February), [1 p., alphabetical table], XXII col., [1 blank p.], 390 col. (March), [1 blank p.], XXIV col. (critical table), 400 col. (April); Vol. II: XXX columns (title and critical table), [1 p., alphabetical table], 476 columns (May), XXIV columns (critical table), 400 columns (June), [1 folio, alphabetical table], 28 columns (critical table), 498 col. (July), [1 p. alpha table], XXXII col. (critical table), 512 col. (August); Vol. III: XL col., 9–426 col. (no missing pages), [1 blank p.], XXXVI col. (critical table), 456 col. (October), XXVI col. (critical table), 472 col. (November), XXVIII col. (critical table), [1 leaf, alphabetical table], 442 columns (December), [1 blank page], 32 columns (general table). Also included, by the same author, is the supplement to the previous work: The Lives of the Saints and the History of the Feasts of the Year. Volume Four containing the history of movable feasts. The Lives of the Saints of the Old Testament. The Chronology of the Saints. The Topography of the Saints. Paris, Jean de Nully, 1716. Folio bound in full contemporary calfskin, decorated ribbed spine, title label and volume number—corners trimmed with some leather loss, a small tear at the top joint, 3 corners pierced, some scuffing—[2 ff.], XXVIII col. (history of Sunday and other weekly holidays), 290 col., (movable feasts), [1 blank p.], 386 col. (continued movable feasts), [1 blank p.], [1 f. chronology of the Saints], 439 col. (Lives of the Old Testament Saints), [1 blank p.], 350 col. (Chronology of Old Testament Saints), [1 blank p.], 338 col. (Topography of the Saints).