Relation de l'estat de la religion
Subtitle: et par quels desseins, & artifices, elle a esté forgee, & gouuernee en diuers estats de ces parties Occidentales du monde
By: tiree de l'Anglois, du cheualier Edwin Sandis. ; auec des additions notables
Contributors: Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623; Diodati, Giovanni, 1576-1649
Publisher: Chez Louys Elzevier
Published: 1641
Place of publication: A Amsterdam
Language: fre
Number of pages: 419
Subjects: Controversial literature; Religion; Catholic Church
Notes: Sandys dated the ms. for Europae speculum in April 1599; it remained in ms. form until a stolen copy of the ms. was entered in Stationer's Hall, 21 June 1605, as "A relation of the state of religion." Sandys had the high commission burn this printed version 7 Nov. 1605. He made corrections and additions to the pirated edition, and this version was printed at The Hague in 1629, 4to, as "Europae Speculum, or a View or Survey of the State of Religion in the Westerne parts of the World." An Italian.

translation of the 1605 edition was made by P. Sarpi, with his own additions, in 1625; G. Diodati in turn translated Sarpi's Italian edition into French in 1626. This Elsevier edition is a textual reproduction of Diodati's Geneva, 1626 edition. Cf. DNB; Willems.

Printer's device on t.p.: Rahir 88.

Tailpiece; initial.

Blanks: prelim. p. [2], p. [7] at end.

Error in paging: no. 231 misprinted 131.

With: Geslin, P. La saincte chorographie. A Amsterdam, Chez Louys Elzevier, 1641. Issued together.