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WITH A LARGE FOLDING ENGRAVING OF AN AUTO DA FE IN SESSION

(JUDAICA—INQUISITION) OLMO, Jose del. Relacion Historica del Auto General de Fe. Madrid, 1680. First edition of this account of a public auto da fe of the Spanish Inquisition in Madrid in 1680, containing the names of nearly 100 men and women accused of “Judaizing.” With engraved frontispiece and a large folding engraving giving a detailed perspective of the auto da fe in progress, including the plaza, balconies, guards and prisoners. $2200.

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“HOW CAN ONE CALL ‘HOLY’ A COURT THAT VIOLATES
THE SACRED LAWS OF JESUS CHRIST AND THE CHURCH?”

(INQUISITION) [DELLON, Charles, a.k.a. Gabriel]. Relation de l"Inquisition de Goa. Paris, 1688.

First French edition and first illustrated edition, published just one year after the first, of this memoir of the ordeal of the French physician Charles Dellon at the hands of the Portuguese Inquisition in Goa, India. With six engraved plates (three folding) by Cornelis Vermeulen after P. Sevin. $1250.

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