MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL

AUCTION 35 | Tuesday, November 21st, 2006 at 1:00

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Lot 186

MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL

The Second Volume of The Phenix: or, a Revival of Scarce and Valuable Pieces No-where to be Found but in the Closets of the Curious (includes Menasseh Ben Israel, Defence of the Jews, and a Catalogue of Books published by Manasseh Ben Israel, on pp. 391-426) pp. 16, 552. Trace foxed. Contemporary calf. Spine cracked, front board detached, back board missing. Sm. 4to Roth, Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p.209

London: J. Morphew 1708

Est: $700 - $1,000

Vindiciae Judaeorum was composed by Menasseh in 1656, during his stay in England to defend the Jews against the attacks then being voiced, and in the hope that he could yet persuade Oliver Cromwell, to formally readmit the Jews. Frustrated at his failure to achieve his objective, Menasseh returned to Amsterdam in 1657, dying shortly thereafter. See EJ, Vol. XI, col. 857