Tovey, D’Blossiers. Anglia Judaica: or The History and Antiquities of the Jews in England

AUCTION 63 | Thursday, November 13th, 2014 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

Tovey, D’Blossiers. Anglia Judaica: or The History and Antiquities of the Jews in England

<<FIRST EDITION. >> Wide margined copy. Few contemporary marginal notes. pp. (8), 319. Neat repair to title. Contemporary calf, discolored, light wear. 4to. Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 28, no. 42

Oxford: James Fletcher 1738

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $800

Anglia Judaica, by the English clergyman D’Blossiers Tovy (1692-1745), is the first comprehensive history of the Jews of England, with especially useful information concerning the protracted negotiations between Menasseh ben Israel and Oliver Cromwell over the proposed resettlement of the Jews in England - a crucial period in Anglo-Jewish history. According to Tovey, so great were the hopes the Jews pinned on Protector Cromwell, that a certain faction among them believed Cromwell was indeed the Messiah himself (see p. 275).