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Histoire des Vaudois, ou des habitans des vallees occidentales du Piemont ..
by Brez, Jacques
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Paris: Chez Leclerc, 1796. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Two Volumes in One. Half-bound in brown calf over yellow-marbled boards. Edges in yellow. Vol. I: [8] xliv, [2] 27-132 p.p.; Vol. II: [2] 3-268 p.p. Pastoral head and tail-pieces. Includes a list of subscribers. A History of the Waldensians, an ascetic group of Christians, founded by Peter Waldo in 1173, Lyon. The group originated in the western valleys of Piedmont, Italy. The book describes the history of the movement from the 12th to the end of the 18th century. It also contains a fragment of a poem in the Waldensian language, and the Catechism of the Waldensians. Jacques Brez [1771-1798] was a pastor, entomologist and historian. Light wear to corners and outer edges. Spine ends rubbed. Calf cracked on spine. Pages lightly foxed. Sporadic staining to leaves. Otherwise in very good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Minotavros Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001879
- Title
- Histoire des Vaudois, ou des habitans des vallees occidentales du Piemont ..
- Author
- Brez, Jacques
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chez Leclerc
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1796
- Keywords
- Waldensian, Ascetic, Piedmont, Peter Waldo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion; Christianity;
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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