Waldensians.- Leger (Jean) Histoire Generale des Eglises Evangeliques des Vallees de Piemont ou Vaudoises, 2 parts in 1, first edition, engraved additional pictorial title and portrait, titles with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- & tail pieces and initials, folding engraved map, engraved illustrations in text, errata leaf at end, engraved title soiled, some browning or spotting, portrait lacking small portion from outer margin, small hole to M2 affecting pagination, another to lower margin of 4A2, small rust-marks to 4S1 & 2 from an old pair of horn-rimmed spectacles loosely inserted (one lens cracked), contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt, rubbed, joints split, spine ends and corners worn, folio, Leiden, Jean le Carpentier, 1669.

⁂ History of the originally pre-Reformation evangelical group known as the Waldensians who unsuccessfully retreated to the upper valleys of Piedmont in Italy to avoid persecution. The illustrations show gruesome atrocities committed by the forces of the Duke of Savoy during the massacre of 1655.