Mikveh Yisrael. Second edition. * BOUND WITH: BENJAMIN OF TUDELA. Masaoth shel Rabi Benyamin [travel]

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MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL

Mikveh Yisrael. Second edition. * BOUND WITH: BENJAMIN OF TUDELA. Masaoth shel Rabi Benyamin [travel]

Two works bound in one ff. 66 and ff. 27. First: Minimal portion of opening leaf present (title supplied in facsimile). Modern boards. 16mo Silva Rosa 57-d; Vinograd, Amst. 660 and 659; Fuks, Amsterdam 527 and 553

Amsterdam: Asher Anshel & Partners, and Caspar Steen 1698

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $425

FIRST HEBREW EDITION of R. Menasseh’s treatise on the Lost Ten Tribes and the related revelations of Antonio Montesinos. An important work that laid the groundwork toward the re-Admission of the Jews to England. See Silva Rosa 57-d; J.H. Coppenhagen no. 640