Dinim de Sejita y Bedica Traducidos del Suljan Aruh En Idioma Espanola, Con todas Las Circunstancias, que Requiere nuestra Santa Ley, por Estilo muy Breve.

AUCTION 1 | Thursday, November 14th, 1996 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 20

(ANGLO-JUDAICA). MENDOZA, AARON.

Dinim de Sejita y Bedica Traducidos del Suljan Aruh En Idioma Espanola, Con todas Las Circunstancias, que Requiere nuestra Santa Ley, por Estilo muy Breve.

FIRST EDITION. Four engraved plates (drawn by Mendoza) of animal intestines, printed in red. (pp.57): ff.(2),pp.1-11,(10),13-18,(4),19-(24),(4),25-34,(2), lightly foxed and stained, previous owner’s signatures, one f. loose, modern boards, 8vo

London: n.p 15th Tebet 5492 - [1732/33?]

Est: $6,000 - $7,000

An apparantly unrecorded edition of an extremely rare compendium in Spanish of laws of ritual slaughter. Roth (B11,14), Kayserling (p.70) and the British Museum Catalogue (vol.V, p.88) all note a 1733 edition with a differing title and pagination. This is the only known work of Aaron Mendoza, an Anglo-Sephardi engraver and father of the English boxing champion, Daniel Mendoza. See A.M. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951) p.115; A. Rosenthal (Book-Dealer), Catalogue XI - Anglo-Judaica (1948) no.681.