Histoire generale des eglises evangeliques des vallees de Piemont, ou, Vaudoises : divisee en deux livres, dont le premier fait voir incontestablement quelle a esté de tous tems tant leur discipline, que sur tout leur doctrine, & de quelle maniere elles l'ont si constamment conservée en une si grande pureté, dés que Dieu les a tirées des tenebres du paganisme jusques à present, sans interruption, & necessité de reformation et le second traite generalement de toutes les plus considerables persecutions qu'elles ont souffertes pour la soûtenir sur tout dés qu l'inquisition a commencé à regner sur les chrêtiens jusques à l'an 1664 / par Jean Leger ... ; le tout enrichi de tailles douces.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Léger, Jean, 1615-approximately 1670.

Contributor:

Le Carpentier, Jean, -1670, printer.

Swift's Library and Reading Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Waldenses--History--Early works to 1800.

Waldenses.

Waldenses--Italy--Piedmont.

Waldenses--Doctrines.

History.

Italy--Piedmont.

Penn Provenance:

Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Collection copy)

Elias, Susan Homans (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Collection copy)

Desbrisay, Theophilus (autograph) (bookplate) (Swift's Library and Reading Collection copy)

Physical Description:

38 unnumbered pages, 212 pages, 16 unnumbered pages, 385 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of folded plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 39 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Histoire generale des eglises evangeliques des vallees de Piemont

Vaudoises

Place of Publication:

A Leyde : Chez Jean le Carpentier, 1669.

Notes:

Signatures: pi1-3 ***² a-g² A-X² Z-3H², ²a-d² A-5F².

Text occasionally printed in double columns.

Added engraved t.p.

Part 2 has special half-title and separate pagination and signatures.

The engravings on leaf ²2I2v have been wrongly imposed in each other's place.

Woodcuts: initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Errata on leaves g2v and 5F2r.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

This title is part of The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift: a Partial Replication, a collection given to the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2005 in memory of Susan Homans Elias and in honor of the late Heinz J. Vienken.

Swift's Library and Reading Collection copy imperfect: t.p. and added engraved t.p. repaired at outer margin.

Swift's Library and Reading Collection copy has had a second copy of the engravings on leaf ²2I2v printed; each has been pasted into the correct place over the original wrongly imposed engravings.

Swift's Library and Reading Collection copy has a few ms. marginal notes in ink.

Lea Library copy 2 imperfect: engraved t.p. wanting.

Cited in:

Brunet, III, 941

Passmann-Vienken. Swift's Library, II, p. 1063

OCLC:

7040677