The History Of The Inquisition, As It Is Exercised at Goa, In the East-Indies, Under the Domination of the King of Portugal. Written in French by Mosieur Dellon, Who laboured Five Years under the Severities of that Inquisition. With An Account of his Deliverance.

Collation: A2, B-I4, K6. Pagination: [4]76p. Modern cloth, title gilt on spine, small hole in blank fore-margin of A2, a few page numbers at head slightly trimmed, clean copy. Gabriel (a.k.a. Charles) Dellon (1649-1709?) was a French physician who travelled in the Indies and was arrested by the Portugese and in 1674 was transported to Goa and condemned to serve five years on the galleys. Caillet remarks on the impartiality of his account of the Inquisition. Despite its impartiality,it was put on the Index in 1690.With an advertisement leaf: this History of the inquisition at Goa was translated by the Rev. Mr. Henry Wharton, . and was first published in . 1688. A reissue of the 1748 edition with a cancel title-page and advertisement leaf.Wharton, Henry (1664?1695), Church of England clergyman and historian. Citations: ESTC t89676. Van der Vekene 462.