Asser Daniel Cohen. De mosaiske Troesbekjenderes Stilling i Danmark forhen og nu … tilligemed alle Lovsteder og offentlige Foranstaltninger dem angaaende, som ere udkomne fra 1651 til 1836.

AUCTION 75 | Thursday, March 08th, 2018 at 1:00 PM

Auction of Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Antiquities, Ceremonial Objects & Graphic Art

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Lot 141

(DENMARK).

Asser Daniel Cohen. De mosaiske Troesbekjenderes Stilling i Danmark forhen og nu … tilligemed alle Lovsteder og offentlige Foranstaltninger dem angaaende, som ere udkomne fra 1651 til 1836.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Text in Danish. pp. xv, 468, (1). Ex-library, lightly stained and foxed. Later calf-baked marbled, spine titled in gilt, rubbed. 8vo.

Odense (Denmark):

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $550

A Danish rabbinic scholar, the author (1794-1863) composed this work, the first of its kind in the vernacular, providing a comprehensive detailed history of the Jews in Denmark, including a focus on how legal enactments affected their emancipation. Jews was permitted to live in Denmark only in 1684 and emancipated as Danish citizens from 1814. <<Accompanied by:>> A critical review of Cohen’s work by a anonymous Danish clergyman: Nogle Bemærkninger over en geistlig Mands Anmeldelse og Betragtning af Hr. Katechet A.D. Cohen's Skrift: "De mosaiske Troesbekjenderes Stilling i Danmark", Odense 1837. <<Denmark: See also Lots 131, 181.>>