(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00

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

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Lot 99

(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

Solomon Abrabanel of the House of David [Pseudonym of William Arnall]. The Complaint of the Children of Israel, Representing Their Grievances under the Penal Laws; and Praying, that if the Tests are Repealed, the Jews may have the Benefit of this Indulgence in Common with all other Subjects of England. pp. 39, (1 blank). Ex-library, trace stained. Wrappers. 8vo.

London: W. Webb 1736

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $550

The author, a philo-Semite posing as a bona-fide Jew, pleads the cause of equal employment opportunity for England’s Jewish minority. For unspecified reasons, Roth characterizes the work as a satire against non-conformists (Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 214, no. 50).