Louis Maimbourg - Histoire du Calvinisme - 1682

Third edition of this history against Calvinism, 'the most furious and the most terrible of all enemies that France has ever had.' The original edition was published three years before the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

The Jesuit Louis Maimbourg (1610-1686), a native of Nancy and a renowned historian of the medieval church, presents Calvinism as a major heresy in this work. Written as a chronicle from the heresiarchs Luther and Zwingli in 1520 to the Edict of Nantes in 1598, it provoked numerous complaints from Protestants. In the preface, Maimbourg recalls that he was just expelled from his order by Pope Innocent XI, the reason being his defense of Louis XIV, who was opposed to the pope.

In this writing, Maimbourg also outlines the history of the League and the events of the history of Protestantism in France.

Complete in two volumes, in-12, bound in full brown morocco, with floral tooling on the spine and decorated with small gold tools, with gilded titles and volume numbers, and red mottled edges.
In good condition. Two leather losses on the front of volume I, split hinges in both volumes (about 5-6 cm with small leather losses as well). Headbands trimmed. Sturdy work. Interior well preserved, slightly yellowed paper, rare pinholes, tiny wormwork in the upper margin of volume I.

Provenance: Manuscript ex-libris and with black wax stamped with a coat of arms punch on the title pages.

Maimbourg, Louis
History of Calvinism
In Paris, at Sébastien Marbre-Cramoisy's, 1682
2 vols in-12 (16 x 9cm); [22]-376 + [8]-391-[22]