Avak Sopherim [Biblical homilies and sermons]

Estimate: $300–$400
Hammer price: $200

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author

CUENQUE, ABRAHAM

printer

Nathaniel Foa

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1704

Description

FIRST EDITION. Three parts in one. Title within architectural arch

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 769

summary

A native of Hebron in the second half of the seventeenth-century, the author became one of the most earnest apostles of Shabthai Tzvi. Even the apostasy of the pretended Messiah failed to shake Cuenque’s belief. The introduction of the present work presents an account of his travels throughout Europe ostensibly to raise funds for the destitute of the Holy Land, but in actuality in order to win adherents to the Sabbathian Movement

ff. 6, 192. Penultimate two leaves misbound, lightly browned, clean tear on f. 27. title page laid down, with incidental loss of frame. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, rubbed and rebacked. Folio

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