Louis Maimbourg - Histoire du Calvinisme - 1682

DESCRIPTION: Not all books should survive, but this one did.

In the Year of Our Lord 1682, somewhere in France, when Europe still argued about its faith with violence and absolute certainty, the French Jesuit Louis Maimbourg (1610-1686) wrote "Histoire du Calvinisme" not as history… but as a weapon.

And a copy still remains here...

Do not expect impartiality. Here Martin Luther does not begin a reform: he opens a wound. John Calvin does not organize a doctrine: he imposes a cold order in Geneva that resonates like a sentence.

The pages do not describe Europe. They accuse it.
France burns. The Huguenots rise. Heresy, blood, fire.
Ideas become conflicts.
And in the middle of all this, this book does not observe… it takes sides.

But that is not the most disturbing thing. What is disturbing is that this copy is not a modern edition, nor a domesticated edition. It is the original object. The very type of volume that circulated when these ideas could still change destinies.

Someone held it when it truly mattered.
Someone read it without knowing that centuries later it would remain intact.

Normal books are read.
This one is inherited… or lost.

Because there are objects that never cross paths twice. And this — whether you like it or not — has already found you.

HISTORY OF CALVINISM: HERESY, BLOOD, FIRE. WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, IT HAS FOUND YOU. DO NOT LET IT ESCAPE.

PUBLICATION YEAR: Paris, 1682 (344 years old)

LANGUAGE: French (Original Version)

SIZE AND PAGINATION: Dimensions: 13.8 x 8 cm. Pagination: Title Page Engraved + Editorial Title Page + (24pp) + 514pp + (16pp). COMPLETE WORK

CONDITION: Half-leather binding, in good condition of preservation, with some wear, as shown in photos. Flat spine decorated with gold fillets and the author’s and title’s names in gold lettering. Marbleized edges.

The interior is in good condition as shown in photos, and illustrated with a magnificent etched title page.

HISTORY OF CALVINISM: HERESY, BLOOD, FIRE. WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, IT HAS FOUND YOU. DO NOT LET IT ESCAPE.

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