JESURUN, ISAAC DE ABRAHAM CHAIM. Livro da Providencia Divina

Estimate

$3,000–$4,000

Hammer price

Not recorded

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author

(SEPHARDIC LITERATURE)

printer

n.p.

Place

(Hamburg)

Publication

1663

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within ornamental border

references

Kayserling 53

summary

Jesurun was Haham of the Portuguese Community of Hamburg. The publication of this, his magnum opus, marks the dawn of a body of Jewish-Spanish literature produced in Germany. According to one estimate, the Sephardic Community of Hamburg numbered just 120 families the year this work was published. An early member of the Community was the scholar, Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (see lot 161). See Y. Kaplan, in: M. Studemund-Halevy (Ed.) Die Sefarden in Hamburg. Zur Geschichte einer Minderheit (1994) p.64.

pp.(8),202. Trace wormed, lightly discolored. Contemporary vellum, rubbed. 4to

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