Calmet 1730 Commentary On The Bible. Nine folio Volumes. Latin.

Calmet’s Commentary on the Bible. 1730. Complete in 9 folio volumes (each 13.5 inches tall) bound in vellum with manuscript titles on spines. Biblical text and commentary in Latin (with frequent Greek and Hebrew). Multiple plates and fold-out maps (some with very minor peripheral tears). Several cracks and chips of vellum (some remotely repaired, see photos). Bindings tight. Pages clean and bright. Previous owner and library markings.
Volume 1:
LXXIV, 521. 15 plates (1 folding), 3 folding maps. LIII/IV 4” tear without loss. No LXIV/LXV but catchwords match.
Volume 2:
(4) XII, 430. 1 folding map, 1 folding plate, 1 plate, 2 figures.
Volume 3: 
XL, 745. 1 folding map, 1 folding plate, 1 folding plate, 1 plate, 1 plate, 1 folding plate.
Volume 4:
778, 2 plates.
Volume 5:
692.
Volume 6:
679.
Volume 7:
776, 1 plate, 1 folding map.
Volume 8:
880 pages (four pages 72 (72 - 72e)), 2 folding maps, 4 figures.
Volume 9:
791.
Decorative capitals. Decorative head piece for Ezekiel.
Dom Augustin Calmet, who is so famous as a biblical exegetist, was born at Menil-la-Horgne, near Commercy, Lorraine, on 26th February, 1672; and died at the abbey of Senones, near Saint-Die, 25th October, 1757. He was educated by the monks of the Benedictine Priory of Breuil, and in 1688 he joined this learned order in the abbey of St. Mansuy at Toul, being professed in the following year, and ordained 17th March 1696. At the Abbey of Moyen-Moutier, where he taught philosophy and theology, he soon engaged the help of the whole community to gather the material for his vast work on the Bible. … It is impossible that in some small points so encyclopaedic a work should not be open to criticism, but its merits are permanent and the erudition truly amazing. … When we add to these his historical and philosophical writings the output of this great scholar is well-nigh incredible. So remarkable a man could not fail to hold high honours in his own Congregation, and it was only at his earnest prayer that Pope Benedict XIII refrained from compelling him to accept a mitre, since this Pontiff on more than one occasion expressed himself anxious to reward the merits and the learning of the Abbot of Senones.  -Montague Summers, 1928