93 188 (INQUISITION). Dellon, Charles. Relation de l’Inquisition de Goa. FIRST FRENCH EDITION AND FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Six engraved plates (three double-page) by Cornelis I. Vermeulen after P. Sevin. Pictorial vignettes in text. Engraved printer’s device on title. pp. (24), 437, (25). Stained in places, one plate partially colored in red, one plate with marginal tear not affecting image. Contemporary mottled calf, rubbed. 12mo. Paris, Daniel Horthemels, 1688. $1000-1500 ❧ 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. 189 ISHMAEL COHEN OF MODENA. Zera Emeth [responsa, with Talmudic novellae]. FIRST EDITION. Three volumes. Complete set. Previous owner’s marks. Modern non-uniform boards. Sm. folio.[Vinograd, Livorno 225, 414 and Reggio 20.] Livorno, 1787, 1796 and Reggio, 1812. $400-600 ❧ Prominent posek R. Yishmael HaCohen (1724-1810) succeeded his brother R. David HaCohen as Rabbi of Modena - a notable center of rabbinic learning of 18th century Italy. R. Yishmael held the position of Rabbi and leader of Modena for decades, during which time his rulings were conclusive in all matters affecting Italian Jews.