Alphonse BELIN
[IMPRESSION DE NEVERS] La Vérité de la Religion Catholique, Apostolique & Romaine, & la fausseté de la Religion Pretendüe Reformée des Calvinistes.[[NEVERS IMPRINT - The Truth of the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Religion, and the Falsehood of the So-Called Reformed Religion of the Calvinists]
Antoine Chaillot|Nevers 1683|10.5 x 17.5 cm|Relié
First and only edition of the author's sole work.
Adorned with a fine engraved portrait of Jacques-Nicolas Colbert (1655–1707), youngest son of the minister and Archbishop of Carthage, to whom the book is dedicated.
Bound in full red morocco, spine with five raised bands, richly gilt compartments decorated with gilt fleurs-de-lys, gilt fillets, and Du Seuil-style panels on the covers; gilt tooling to headcaps and board edges, all edges gilt. Contemporary binding.
Some foxing, small wormholes at head and foot of spine, three black spots at the head of the upper cover.
Provenance: from the library of Alfred Massé (1911–1951), Radical-Socialist deputy for Nièvre under...
€2,000