ABBADIE Jacques (calvinista) - Traité de la vérité de la...

ABBADIE Jacques (1654-1727), Treatise on the Truth of the Christian Religion, third edition, Rotterdam, Reinier Leers, 1689, 12°, vol. 1, pp. [24], 544, [8]; vol. 3, pp. [2], 500, [8], binding half leather, back with 5 raised ribs and gilded ornaments and title. Only the first and third volumes. ABBADIE (or Abadie), a Calvinist, born about 1654 in Nay (Béarn); died October 2, 1727 at St. Mary-le-bone, now a parish of London. Having earned a theology degree (Protestant) at Strasbourg, he took up in Berlin, summoned there by Elector Frederick William, the spiritual leadership of the French Protestants; after Frederick William’s death, he followed in England Marshal Schomberg, who perished at the Battle of the Boyne (1690). Abbadie remained in England, obtaining various ecclesiastical offices; then (1699) he was made dean of Killaloe (Ireland). He had retired to St. Mary-le-Bone to prepare the complete edition of his works. Printed in the Netherlands for obvious reasons Conditions: surface binding damaged with boards very worn (however the binding remains very solid), interiors with stains, especially moisture, and browning; dust (it would be better to discard the boards or rebind them), but see the photos

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