Zoth Torath Hakana’oth [polemic]

AUCTION 16 | Tuesday, June 25th, 2002 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 90

EMDEN, JACOB.

Zoth Torath Hakana’oth [polemic]

FIRST EDITION. Printed without a title-page. With Autograph Manuscript Notations in cursive script by Jacob Emden suggesting that the prophecies emanating from the Sabbatians is the result of Black Magic ff. 73. Foxed. Recent marbled boards, gently rubbed at extremites. 4to Vinograd, Altona 54; Mehlman 1714; Raphael 8

Amsterdam (i.e. Altona: By the Author 1752)

Est: $7,000 - $8,000

PRICE REALIZED $13,000

An anthology of Sabbatianism. Including a biography of Shabthai Tzvi and critiques of Jonathan Eybescheutz, Nechemiah Hayun and other suspected Sabbatians. This copy with critical, indeed bitingly sarcastic comments written by Jacob Emden in the margins of a single leaf. Many of Emden’s annotated works are presently in the British Library, London and the Bodleian Library, Oxford, however neither possess an annotated copy of this rare polemic