Shevirath Luchoth Ha’Aven ["Breaking the Tablets of Iniquity": polemic against the amulets of Eybeschuetz]

AUCTION 46 | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 1:00

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

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Lot 103

EMDEN, JACOB

Shevirath Luchoth Ha’Aven ["Breaking the Tablets of Iniquity": polemic against the amulets of Eybeschuetz]

FIRST EDITION. Our copy without two-leaf German and Latin Authorization at end found in some copies. ff. 60. Leaves 45-52 bound out of sequence between ff. 56-57. Leaves 49-52 possibly supplied from another copy. Usual browning, dampstained in places, title tape-repaired. Modern morocco. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Altona 59; Raphael, Aresheth, Vol. III, p. 256 (no. 12); Mehlman 1713

Zolkiew (i.e. Altona: By the Author) 1756

Est: $4,000 - $5,000

Response to Jonathan Eybescheutz’s Luchoth Eiduth (see Lot 108) - an outgrowth of the vituperative controversy which arose over amulets that Eybeschuetz dispensed in Metz. Almost all of Emden’s polemical writings were banned upon publication. According to Carmilly-Weinberger, “copies of [Shevirath Luchoth Ha’Aven] by Emden [are] difficult to obtain because the ban against [them] had been quite effective” (p. 88)