La morale pratique de l’Eglise sur les preceptes du Decalogue: ou la maniere de conduire les Ames clans le sacrement de penitence Séconde édition. [Volume 1] [The practical morality of the Church on the precepts of the Decalogue: or the manner of leading Souls in the sacrament of penitence]

Paris: Imbert de Bats, 1701. Second Edition. Leather bound. Very good/none as issued. A rare second edition. Volume I only. Held by only four national libraries worldwide, according to Worldcat. No auction listings in RBH. No others on the market. Text in French. Full French leather binding with five raised bands. Ornate gilt spine titling and decorations. Laid paper. Hand marbled end papers.. Defunct parochial library stamp on first free endpaper. Previous owner's name on title page. Swells when laid flat, but no water damage. 551 pp.18mo. 4 x 6 1/2 tall. Very good. Leather bound (Hand bound) Grancolas, Jean, Doctor of the Sorbonne, theologian, liturgist; b. near Chateaudun, about 1660; d. at Paris, August 1, 1732. Having received the degree of Doctor of Theology of the faculty of Paris in 1685, he became chaplain to the brother of Louis XIV. He pronounced the funeral oration of this prince, but his panegyric displeased the son of the deceased, the Duke of Orleans, future Regent of France, who dismissed him from his house. His unfortunate essay caused Grancolas to abandon official eloquence, and, having devoted much time to studying liturgical ceremonies and comparing the various usages with the text of the ancient writers who have given an account of them, he undertook to communicate to the public his observations on this head. His first work dealt with the antiquity of the ceremonies of the sacraments. The favorable reception accorded this endeavor led Grancolas to publish the next year a study of the custom of dipping the consecrated bread in the wine. However, the author was desirous of participating in less severe questions, and wished to engage in theological polemics. At that time the matter of Quietism was creating a great stir in the world, and Grancolas conceived the idea of plunging into the quarrel by a refutation of the heresy which he entitled “Le Quietisme contraire au doctrine des sacraments” (Quietism contrary to the doctrine of the Sacraments), and which appeared in 1693. - Catholic Encyclopedia