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Author: Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy
Title: Les NOMBRES Traduit en François Avec l'explication du sens littéral & du sens spirituel tirée des Saints Péres, & des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques.
Language: Text in Latin and French.
Publisher: À Paris, Chez Guillaume Desprez, 1697.
Size: 6.5 " X 4 "
Pages:  xx-444 pages
Binding: Attractive and very good full calf leather binding (hinges fine, overall slightly scuffed and worn - as shown) under a protective mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare staining and foxing, note of a previous owner on the back of the free first endpaper - as shown).

The book: Original 17th century French Latin edition of The Book of Numbers --  the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible, and the fourth of five books of the Jewish Torah. The book has a long and complex history, but its final form is probably due to a Priestly redaction (i.e., editing) of a Yahwistic source made some time in the early Persian period (5th century BCE). The name of the book comes from the two censuses taken of the Israelites.