Mateh Dan-Kuzari Chelek Sheni

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,600

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author

NIETO, DAVID

printer

Thomas Ilive

Place

London

Publication

1714

Description

FIRST EDITION. Hebrew and Spanish text in two columns. Two title pages each with architectural arch incorporating portrait-roundel of Judah the Prince flanked by armour-suited angels

references

Vinograd, London 24; Roth, London 5

summary

Haham of the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue in London, Nieto (1654-1728) composed this work as a defence of rabbinic Judaism from the attacks of free-thinking former Marranos. Editions with the text in Hebrew or Spanish only were published in the same year

ff. (10), 254. Margins of Spanish title frayed, foxed. Recent boards, broken. 4to

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