(ANGLO-JUDAICA). ELIAKIM BEN ABRAHAM (i.e. Jacob Hart)

Estimate: $2,500–$3,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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David b. Mordechai Halevi

Place

London

Publication

1794-95-99

Description

Asarah Ma’amaroth: Milchamoth Hashem [polemic in defence of Judaism and against the rationalist theories of Voltaire, Paine and others]. ff. (3), 9, 9-32. * Binah La’itim [on the cryptic chronology in the Book of Daniel and predicting the coming of the Messiah in the year 1840]. ff. (2), 26. * Tzuph Noveloth [Kabbalistic commentary to Joseph Solomon Delmedigo’s Noveloth Chachmah]. ff. (2), 36, (2)

references

Vinograd, London 139, 143 and 159 (without the final 2 leaves); Roth, London 71

summary

A unique figure in his time, Hart (1745-1814) was the first native-born English Jew who posessed a level of Jewish learning on a par with his co-religionists on the Continent. The present work represents the first three parts of an intended ten-part tract, a further two appeared in Berlin in 1803 before the project was aborted. For a detailed appraisal of Hart’s life and evaluation of his writings, see JHSET, vol. IV (1940) pp. 207-23

First part lacking ff. 19-20. First: ex-library, blank strips removed from lower margin of two leaves. Second: lightly stained. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, rubbed; and modern boards. 8vo

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