De Judaeis et Eorum

AUCTION 2 | Tuesday, June 03rd, 1997 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art Including Property from a Dutch Private Collector and the Late T. Nachum Gidal

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Lot 317

LUTHER, MARTIN

De Judaeis et Eorum

FIRST LATIN EDITION, translated from the German by J. Jonam Lacking title, lightly foxed, wormed in places, marginal repair to final 3 leaves, later half-vellum, rubbed, sm. folio Freimann 263; not in Adams

Frankfurt a/Main: Petrus Brubach 1544

Est: $300 - $500

First Latin edition of this vicious polemic “Of the Jews and Their Lies,” notorious for it’s bitter invective. Original German edition published a year earlier in Wittenberg