MENESES, SEBASTIÃO CÉSAR DE. Summa Politica

AUCTION 50 | Thursday, February 24th, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Art

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Lot 327

(MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL).

MENESES, SEBASTIÃO CÉSAR DE. Summa Politica

Second Edition. Two versions, Latin and Portuguese, issued same year, here, bound together in one volume Latin version: pp.(1), 206. * Portuguese version: pp. 208. Lightly browned. Contemporary limp vellum, light wear. 12mo J.H. Coppenhagen, Menasseh Ben Israel, p. 44, no. 11*

Amsterdam: Simaõ Dias Soeiro Lusitano 1650

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,250

In 1650, Menasseh's Amsterdam printing establishment was taken over by his eldest son, Samuel Ben Israel Soeiro (see Fuks, Vol. I, p. 110). According to Coppenhagen, "Simon Dias Soeiro as noted on the title-page of the present work, is but another name for this eldest son of Menasseh." This book is extremely rare. WorldCat shows but a single copy, housed in the University of Salamanca, Spain. There is reportedly a first edition, printed in Lisbon, 1649. See A. Cassuto, Seltener Bücher aus meiner Bibliothek ["Rare Books from My Library"], Studia Rosenthaliana, Vol. VI, No. 2 (July 1972), pp. 218-19 and figs. 5 and 6 of overleaf (facs. of title)