Possibly a false imprint and may have been printed in Amsterdam.

Attributed to André Morellet by Barbier.

The name of the translator supplied by the online catalogue of the Bibliotheque nationale de France.

Translation and abridgment, by André Morellet, of Directorium inquisitorum, composed in the mid 14th century and first printed in Barcelona, 1503.

"Histoire de l'établissment de l'Inquisition dans le royaume de Portugal, tirée de l'ouvrage de Louis à Paramo, inquisiteur dand le royaume de Sicile, intitulée: De origine & progressu Officii Santacta Inquisitionis. Martriti, ex Typographiä Regiä, 1589", p. [169]-196, has separate caption title, and is a translation of: De origine et progressu Officii Sanctae Inquisitionis, eiussque dignitate & utilitate, de Romani Pontificis potestate & delegata Inquisitorum, edicto fidei, & ordine iudiciario Sancti Officij, quaestiones decem, libri tres, first printed Madrid, 1598.

Signatures: A-H¹² (A1, A2 versos blank) I⁴ (-I4)

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces.

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 20874.

Barbier, A.A. Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes (3.̌ d.), 10787.

Text primarily in French with some passages in Latin.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound as 1st item of 2 with: La politique des Jesuites / by Louis de Monpersan, Amsterdam, 1762.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full mottled calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy contains extensive notes in a contemporary hand on verso of half-title leaf, and some underlinings in blue and red pencil.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: E. Jouin: armorial bookplate on front pastedown; William Stone, Cape Coral, FL.: address label pasted onto front pastedown; Otto Orren Fisher: bookplate pasted onto recto of second front flyleaf.