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

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Lot 231

(EMDEN, JACOB)

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

FIRST EDITION with commentary by Emden. ff. 60. Usual browning, title soiled. Contemporary half-mottled calf marbled boards. 4to Vinograd, Altona 92; Raphael, Areshet vol. III, p. 256 (no. 9)

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

Est: $2,500 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,000

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