Kongl. Majts och Riksens Commerce-Collegie Reglemente, Foer them af Judeske Nationen, som wilja hit I Riket indflytta och sig haer nedsaetta [Regulation for those of the Jewish Nation Who Wish to Migrate to this Kingdom for Settlement]

AUCTION 19 | Tuesday, March 11th, 2003 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art

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Lot 172
(SWEDEN).

Kongl. Majts och Riksens Commerce-Collegie Reglemente, Foer them af Judeske Nationen, som wilja hit I Riket indflytta och sig haer nedsaetta [Regulation for those of the Jewish Nation Who Wish to Migrate to this Kingdom for Settlement]

Printed pamphlet. Text in Swedish pp. (14). Signatures on title. Unbound. Sm. 4to

Stockholm: 27th May 1782

Est: $700 - $1,000
PRICE REALIZED $500
The “Great Jewish Manifest” of 1782. An historically important document giving Jews the right to settle in Sweden. The history of Swedish Jewry commences relatively late. Jews were only permitted to settle in Sweden at the end of the 18th Century. During the 19th Century, the Jews slowly received increasing civil rights eventually attaining Swedish citizenship