SASPORTAS, JACOB. Kitzur Tzitzath Novel Tzvi [abridged compendium of correspondences and polemics against Sabbatian messianism]

AUCTION 7 | Tuesday, June 22nd, 1999 at 1:00

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Lot 372

(EMDEN, JACOB)

SASPORTAS, JACOB. Kitzur Tzitzath Novel Tzvi [abridged compendium of correspondences and polemics against Sabbatian messianism]

FIRST EDITION with commentary by Emden ff. 60. Usual browning. Contemporary marbled boards, upper portion of spine removed, rubbed. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Altona 92; Raphael 9

Amsterdam (i.e. Altona: By the Editor 1768)

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,400

This work, originally appended to Sasportas’ volume of responsa Ohel Ya’akov was expunged by the Elders of Amsterdam’s Portuguese Community, frightened by the ferocity with which Sasportas attacked the followers of Shabthai Tzvi. See Carmilly-Weinberger, pp.61-2