SCHWARZ, SAMUEL. Inscriçoes Hebraicas em Portugal

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 336

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SCHWARZ, SAMUEL. Inscriçoes Hebraicas em Portugal

FIRST EDITION. Replete with plates. One of 100 copies (this copy unnumbered) pp. 49, (7). Wrappers (on different quality paper) bound into later boards, rebacked. Sm. folio

Lisbon: Tipografia do Comercio 1923

Est: $200 - $300

PRICE REALIZED $175

Despite the Inquisition's dogged determination to extirpate all vestiges of Judaism from the Iberian Peninsula, there remained the archeological record of early Jewish habitation which the Author here unearthed. Regarding Samuel Schwarz (1880-1953), see EJ, Vol. XIV, col. 1025