Auction 36 · Lot 176
(SEPHARDICA)
- Estimate
- $5,000–$7,000
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
printer
David Tartas
Place
Amsterdam
Publication
1687
Description
With approbation by Haham Isaac Aboab de Fonseca
references
Rodr.Castro (1781) p. 547; Kayserling (1890) p. 13; Neves (1913) 23; Palau(1923) 125060; Peeters (1933) 749, 1296; Den Boer (1988) 243; Den Boer, Spanish and Portuguese Printing (2003) n. 425; Catalogue Rosenthal Ltd (1948), no. 1121
summary
A Spanish translation of Flavius Josephus’ Contra Apionem by the Spanish Jew Joseph Semah Arias. The work is dedicated to the philosopher and physician Isaac (Baltasar) Orobio de Castro (1620-1687), a former Professor of Medicine in Spain and France and a physician at the court of the King of France, who was celebrated in Amsterdam for his vigorous defense of Judaism against its Christian opponents. In his dedication, Arias calls himself an ìintimate friend of Orobio de Castro. Arias also worked in close friendship with the poet and historian Daniel Levi (Miguel) de Barrios
pp. [12] [1]-300. Contemporary calf, edges gilt and gauffered. 8vo
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