Riti e Costumi degli Ebrai

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

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 498

MEDICI, PAOLO SEBASTIANO and NICCOLO STRATTA

Riti e Costumi degli Ebrai

Second edition pp.viii,360. Lightly foxed. Contemporary limp vellum. spine gouged. 8vo

Madrid: Luc’Antonio de Bedmar 1738

Est: $300 - $400

Written by the norious apostate Medici, this vituperative treatment of Jewish custom, is nevertheless, a valuable source for the social history of Italian Ghetto life. See E. Horowitz, Essential Papers on Jewish Culture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy (1992) p.569