Lot n° 363
Estimation :
150 - 200
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ARNAUD (Henri) - Lot 363
ARNAUD (Henri)
Histoire de la glorieuse rentrée des Vaudois dans leurs vallées. Où l'on voit une troupe de ces gens, qui n'a jamais été jusqu'à mille personnes, soutenir la guerre contre le roi de France, & contre S. A. R. le duc de Savoye: faire tête à leur armée Slne. 1710.
In-12: 32f. (dedication and preface), 407pp. Light rings, minor spotting in places.
Contemporary marbled fawn calf, ornate ribbed spine, blond title page, gilt roulette on edges, red edges.
Rare first edition.
Henri Arnaud, pastor and leader of the Vaudois, played an important role in the fighting between French and Savoyard troops and the Vaudois. Between 1689 and 1690, he led a thousand Protestants in their return to the Piedmont valley, known as the Glorious Return, following their exile in Switzerland.
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