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GEDDES, MICHAEL. Miscellaneous Tracts:

Auction 87 · Lot 163

GEDDES, MICHAEL. Miscellaneous Tracts:

Estimate
$300–$500
Hammer price
Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(INQUISITION).

printer

A. & J. Churchill

Place

London

Publication

1702

Description

Viz. I: The History of the Expulsion of the Moriscoes out of Spain… II: The History of the Wars of the Commons of Castille… III: A View of the Spanish Cortes, or Parliament. IV: An Account of the Manuscriptss… in the Mountains of Granada… V: A View of the Inquisition of Portugal… VI: A Spanish Protestant Martyrology. FIRST EDITION. The Alfonso Cassutto copy (with his Booksplate).

summary

Listed on pp. 417-448 are those New Christians accused of the "crime of Judaism,” and "professing the Law of Moses," accompanied by their varied corresponding punishments: Imprisonment, banishment to Brazil, whipping, strangulation, or being burnt to ashes.
pp. (4), 1-336, 327-358, 369-478, (2). Pagination erratic. Title-page through p. 10 wormed. Contemporary blind-tooled paneled calf. 8vo.
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