Riti e Costumi degli Ebrai

Estimate: $300–$400
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

MEDICI, PAOLO SEBASTIANO and NICCOLO STRATTA

printer

Luc’Antonio de Bedmar

Place

Madrid

Publication

1738

Description

Second edition

summary

Written by the norious apostate Medici, this vituperative treatment of Jewish custom, is nevertheless, a valuable source for the social history of Italian Ghetto life. See E. Horowitz, Essential Papers on Jewish Culture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy (1992) p.569

pp.viii,360. Lightly foxed. Contemporary limp vellum. spine gouged. 8vo

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