Sepher ha’Galuth Veha’Peduth [“Exile and Deliverance”]
AUCTION 23 |
Tuesday, March 30th,
2004 at 1:00
Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts from The Rare Book Room of the Jews College Library, London The Third Portion
Lot 173
MASSARANO, ABRAHAM
Sepher ha’Galuth Veha’Peduth [“Exile and Deliverance”]
Venice: n.p 1634
Est: $3,000 - $4,000
PRICE REALIZED $3,000
Rare pamphlet containing fascinating details concerning the worst disaster in the history of Mantuan Jewry when in 1629-30 the city was sacked by the soldiers of Emperor Ferdinand II and her Jews banished. See S. Simonsohn, History of the Jews in the Duchy of Mantua, Jerusalem, 1977,pp.44-64; EJ, vol. XI, col. 896