Vries, Levi Abraham de. Megaleh Tekuphoth. Das ist Entdeckung derer Tekuphoth, oder des schaedlichen Bluts

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Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art

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Vries, Levi Abraham de. Megaleh Tekuphoth. Das ist Entdeckung derer Tekuphoth, oder des schaedlichen Bluts

Text in German with use of Hebrew type pp. (14), 64. Few light stains in places. Later marbled boards. 12mo Not in Carlebach, Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Germany, 1500-1750

Flensburg: Christoph Vogeln 1733

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $350

The first book with Hebrew type printed at Flensburg, Germany. The author, an apostate, restates the calumnious charge of the Jews of Blood Libel. According to the title, de Vries had once served as Rabbi in Amsterdam