Jean NOVI DE CAVEIRAC

First edition.
Contemporary marbled blonde half sheep binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Fawn morocco title label. Upper joint cracked at head and foot for 10 cm. Rubbing to boards.
18th-century armorial bookplate: Bibliothèque de M. de Cangey, gentilhomme ordinaire de la chambre de M. le Comte d'Artois.
The work was originally written in response to a book by Antoine Court (1695-1760), Lettre d'un patriote sur la tolérance civile des protestans de France et sur les avantages qui en résulteroient pour le royaume (1756); this is why it is written in the vocative. The author justifies, by means of a serious historical and economic study, the revocation of the

First edition of these three rare memoirs on Protestantism, all three published without editorial indication.
Contemporary full blonde calf binding. Smooth spine decorated. Red morocco title label. A volume label is present, the book was meant to be shelved among a collection of pamphlets and memoirs. Joints cracked and split. Headcaps worn. Corners bumped.
Novi de Cabeirac studies in his memoir the effects of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. We know he was fanatically intolerant, even though his study of demography and economics is serious.
The second memoir pleads the cause of Protestants before the royal power and denounces the horror of the crimes that were perpetrat