(COUSTOS, JOHN). The Sufferings of John Coustos, for Free-Masonry, and for His Refusing to Turn Roman Catholic, in the Inquisition at Lisbon. To Which is Annex'd, The Origin of the Inquisition.

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $700

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author

(INQUISITION).

printer

W. Strahan

Place

London

Publication

1746

Description

Two Parts in one volume. With engraved frontispiece portrait and three foldout plates of the various tortures of the Inquisition.

summary

The Author touches on the Inquisition's pursuit of Jews: "Jews are not allow'd to vend, publish, or even keep the Talmud; or any Book, which speaks contemptuously of the Christian Religion, or is prohibited by the Inquisiion" (p. 165). Coustos also provides eyewitness accounts of those accused of Judaism “and who, thro' Fear of the Torture, confess'd their being such" (pp. 216-7).

pp. 50, (2), 400. Trace foxed. Contemporary calf, starting. 8vo.

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