Dellon, Charles. Relation de l’Inquisition de Goa.

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Dellon, Charles. Relation de l’Inquisition de Goa.

<<First French Edition, and First Illustrated Edition.>> Six engraved plates (three folding) by Cornelis I. Vermeulen after P. Sevin. Pictorial vignettes in text. Engraved printer’s device on title. pp. (16), 251, (13). Touch stained, initial endpapers removed. Contemporary calf-backed boards. 12mo. cf. Rubens, Jewish Iconography nos. 2069-2079.

Paris: Daniel Horthemels 1688

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,200

An important account of the ordeal of the French physician, Charles Dellon (1649-1709) who, while traveling in India in 1673, had the misfortune to fall into the hands of the Portuguese Inquisition in Goa. He underwent torture while imprisoned before he was finally released after two years by the Grand Tribunal, Lisbon. Dellon’s first edition was published in Leiden in 1687 (with no illustrations) and was subsequently published many times despite being placed on the Catholic Church’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1690.