INQUISITION. [MORELLET (abbé)]: The Manual of the Inquisitors for the use of the Inquisitions of Spain and Portugal, or Abridgement of the work entitled Directorium Inquisitorum, composed about 1358 by Nicolas Eymeric, Grand Inquisitor in the Kingdom of Aragon. Attached is a short History of the Establishment of the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Portugal taken from the Latin of Louis a Paramo. Lisbon, 1762; in 12, 198 pp. full blond calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red edges. Binding of the time. First French edition of the Directorium Inquisitorum. Abbé Morellet, born in Lyon in 1727 and died in Paris in 1819, student of the Jesuits of Lyon, built his career made of philosophical opportunism on his distance from the Catholic faith; it is in this work that he delivers a violent indictment against the Inquisition. Beautiful copy, with the armorial ex libris of the bibl. of François de Bournonville.
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INQUISITION. [MORELLET (abbé)]: The Manual of the Inquisitors for the use of the Inquisitions of Spain and Portugal, or Abridgement of the work entitled Directorium Inquisitorum, composed about 1358 by Nicolas Eymeric, Grand Inquisitor in the Kingdom of Aragon. Attached is a short History of the Establishment of the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Portugal taken from the Latin of Louis a Paramo. Lisbon, 1762; in 12, 198 pp. full blond calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red edges. Binding of the time. First French edition of the Directorium Inquisitorum. Abbé Morellet, born in Lyon in 1727 and died in Paris in 1819, student of the Jesuits of Lyon, built his career made of philosophical opportunism on his distance from the Catholic faith; it is in this work that he delivers a violent indictment against the Inquisition. Beautiful copy, with the armorial ex libris of the bibl. of François de Bournonville.