Sepher Nitzachon-Liber Nizachon

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

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Lot 525

MUELHAUSEN, YOM-TOV LIPMANN

Sepher Nitzachon-Liber Nizachon

FIRST EDITION. Edited by Theodor Hackspan. Engraved Hebrew title with additional Latin letterpress title. Hebrew text followed by Latin translation pp.16,512,24. Title page detached, marginalia. Contemporary calf, rubbed. 4to Vinograd, Altdorf 1; J.Rosenthal, Anti-Christian Polemics from its Beginnings to the End of the 18th Century, Areshet II, pp.148-51(illustrated)

Altdorf-Nürnberg: W. Endter 1644

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

An important polemic. A defense of Rabbinic Judaism and an attack upon Christianity and Karaism. Subsequent rebuttals by Christians gave rise to “anti-Lipmanniana.” See Carmilly-Weinberger, pp.186-87