Addison, L[ancelot]. The Present State of the Jews: Wherein is Contained an Exact Account of their Customs, Secular and Religious. To which is annxed a summary discourse of the Misna, Talmud, & Gemara

AUCTION 42 | Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 47

(ANGLO-JUDAICA)

Addison, L[ancelot]. The Present State of the Jews: Wherein is Contained an Exact Account of their Customs, Secular and Religious. To which is annxed a summary discourse of the Misna, Talmud, & Gemara

Second Edition (first edition was 1675). Title in red and black. Engraved frontispiece of native Indian in local dress, masthead above reads, "The Present State of the Jews in Barbary." pp. (12), 247, (5). Trace foxed. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, rubbed, dentelles, spine in compartments, gilt, portion of spine missing. 12mo Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 394, no.22; Wing A-527

London: for William Crooke 1676

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $500

Despite the Re-admission of the Jews to England in 1656, there was a total lack of pictorial material of them. The present frontispiece was clearly borrowed from another work concerning an entirely different subjects. (See Rubens 1893)