Mikveh Yisrael. Second edition. * BOUND WITH: BENJAMIN OF TUDELA. Masaoth shel Rabi Benyamin [travel]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $425

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author

MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL

printer

Asher Anshel & Partners, and Caspar Steen

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1698

Description

Two works bound in one

references

Silva Rosa 57-d; Vinograd, Amst. 660 and 659; Fuks, Amsterdam 527 and 553

summary

FIRST HEBREW EDITION of R. Menasseh’s treatise on the Lost Ten Tribes and the related revelations of Antonio Montesinos. An important work that laid the groundwork toward the re-Admission of the Jews to England. See Silva Rosa 57-d; J.H. Coppenhagen no. 640

ff. 66 and ff. 27. First: Minimal portion of opening leaf present (title supplied in facsimile). Modern boards. 16mo

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