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Very rare work with the rules and regulations of the orphanage and elderly home institutions of the Walloon Protestant Church at Amsterdam in 1772. It is divided in 15 chapters, each giving the regulations for the staff (the physician, the regents, the guards etc.) and the orphans and elderly. The preface contains the history of the "Hospice Wallon" from 1630-1772. On page 69 and onwards the prayers in use at the house are given. At the end, a list of the regents (male and female) from 1631 until 1771 is present. This copy is interleaved with blank leaves, a few with manuscript annotations in ink. In 1631, the Walloon community bought 3 houses at the Laurierstraat where they founded their orphanage. Eventually these buildings became to crowded and in 1669 the first stones were laid for another building at the corner of the Vijzelgracht in Amsterdam. In April, 1671 the orphans moved to the new building (now Maison Descartes).With manuscript annotations in black ink on the verso of the blank leaf between leaves A1 and A2, in the text on A2r, and on the verso of the blank leaf between leaves C1 and C2; the other interleaved leaves remain blank. The binding is somewhat rubbed, the fore edge and part of the fore edge margin of the last third of the leaves are stained, and some offsetting on the letterpress leaves of the text on the surrounding letterpress pages (this happened before the blank leaves were bound in. Otherwise in very good condition.l STCN 310471796 (3 copies); WorldCat 461252717, 1154627392 (3 copies). Near contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf, with the title lettered in gold on the front board, gold-tooled board edges, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With an engraved vignette on the title page and a divisional title page for the Prieres, a l'usage de la maison des orphelins walons (on leaf I3r). Further with 2 woodcut headpieces. Pages: VIII, 91, [8], [1 blank], [6] pp. interleaved with blank pages.