Tochachath Megulah Vehatzad Nachash

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $550

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author

ERGAS, JOSEPH.

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for Moses Hagiz

Place

London

Publication

1715

Description

FIRST EDITION. The Samuel Schoenblum-Mayer Sulzberger copy.

references

Vinograd, London 29; Roth, London 8; Mehlman 1700

summary

A two-pronged attack that sought to censure Nechemiah Chayun, perhaps the most militant champion of Sabbatian revisionism. See E. Carlebach, The Pursuit of Heresy: Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian Controversies (1990) pp. 137-43

ff. (2), 62. Later patterned boards, rubbed. 8vo

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