Shevirath Luchoth Ha’even.

AUCTION 13 | Tuesday, June 26th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts Together With Fine Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 230

EMDEN, JACOB

Shevirath Luchoth Ha’even.

FIRST EDITION. Two-leaf German and Latin Authorization at end. ff. 60, (2). Usual browning, dampstained in places. Recent marbled boards, contemporary crimson morocco spine. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Altona 59 ; Raphael, Areshet vol. III, p. 256 (no. 12); Mehlman 1713

Zolkiew (i.e. Altona: By the Author) 1756

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,750

Excessively rare response to Jonathan Eybescheutz’s Luchoth Eiduth (1755). Almost all of Emden’s polemical writings were banned upon publication. According to Carmilly-Weinberger “copies of [this work] by Emden [are] difficult to obtain because the ban against [them] had been quite effective” (p.88). An outgrowth of the shattering Emden-Eybescheutz polemical crises which centered over amulets that Eybescheutz circulated in Metz and Hamburg.