Lot 15
Waldensians.- Histoire memorable de la persecution & saccagement du peuple de Merindol & Cabrieres...appelez Vaudois, [Genève], [Jean Crespin], 1556.
Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000
Description
Waldensians.- Histoire memorable de la persecution & saccagement du peuple de Merindol & Cabrieres...appelez Vaudois, collation: A-I8 K4, ink ownership inscription of W.J. Guerrier dated 1911 to front free endpaper, some very minor neat and expert restoration to title and margins of first and last few leaves, 19th century blue morocco by Duru, spine lettered in gilt and with five raised bands, inner gilt dentelles, some fading to covers, rubbed, g.e., [Adams W7], small 8vo (153 x 90mm.), [Genève], [Jean Crespin], 1556.
⁂ Anonymous record of the 1545 massacre of Mérindol, Cabrières and neighboring Waldensian villages as punishment for heresy by Francis I of France. The work was first published the preceding year.
Description
Waldensians.- Histoire memorable de la persecution & saccagement du peuple de Merindol & Cabrieres...appelez Vaudois, collation: A-I8 K4, ink ownership inscription of W.J. Guerrier dated 1911 to front free endpaper, some very minor neat and expert restoration to title and margins of first and last few leaves, 19th century blue morocco by Duru, spine lettered in gilt and with five raised bands, inner gilt dentelles, some fading to covers, rubbed, g.e., [Adams W7], small 8vo (153 x 90mm.), [Genève], [Jean Crespin], 1556.
⁂ Anonymous record of the 1545 massacre of Mérindol, Cabrières and neighboring Waldensian villages as punishment for heresy by Francis I of France. The work was first published the preceding year.