Avak Sopherim [Biblical homilies and sermons]

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00

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Lot 148

CUENQUE, ABRAHAM.

Avak Sopherim [Biblical homilies and sermons]

FIRST EDITION. Three parts in one. Title within architectural arch. THE TZVI HIRSCH FERBER COPY, inscribed to him on title and signed by him a number of times. Older signature of Shemoto Gaguine, the Sephardic scholar, in English ff. 6, 192. Few light stains in places, marginal worming on a few leaves. Contemporary blind-tooled chestnut calf, rubbed, rebacked, remnants of clasps and hinges. Folio Vinograd, Amsterdam 769

Amsterdam: Nathaniel Foa 1704

Est: $200 - $300

PRICE REALIZED $170

A native of Hebron in the second half of the seventeenth-century, the author became one of the most earnest apostles of Shabthai Tzvi. Even the apostasy of the pretended Messiah failed to shake Cuenque’s belief. The introduction of the present work presents an account of his travels throughout Europe ostensibly to raise funds for the destitute of the Holy Land, but in actuality in order to win adherents to the Sabbathian Movement