LA ROCHELLE (17) - Louis de RICHEMOND / "Essai sur l'Origine - Lot 82

LA ROCHELLE (17) - Louis de RICHEMOND / "Essai sur l'Origine et les Progrès de la Réformation à la Rochelle", Cherbuliez Paris et Genève (et Hyacinthe Gout La Rochelle, Peyrot-Tinel Nimes), May 1859, extremely rare booklet published on the occasion of the third secular jubilee of the Reformed Church of France, no author's note (only the presence of an inked stamp at the end of the notice on Philippe Vincent), 48 p (11 x 18 cm), engraved frontispiece (author's drawing), sent by Louis de Richemond to his uncle, copy enriched with 2 original autograph drawings in preparation for the engraving of the frontispiece (one in graphite, the other in ink) - A later, enlarged edition is known from 1872.