Historia De Gli Riti Hebraici. Text in Italian

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,300

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author

MODENA, JUDAH ARYEH (LEONE) DA

printer

di Gennaro

Place

Paris

Publication

1637

Description

FIRST EDITION. Forward by Jacopo Gaffarelli. Opening blank bears signature “Rhabbi Menasseh Ben Israel.”

summary

The first publication written by a Jew in modern times outlining the practices of Judaism for a Gentile readership. Published at the request of Sir Henry Wotton, English Ambassador to Venice, for presentation to King James I, it was translated into French, Dutch, German, English, Latin and, paradoxically, even into Hebrew. See C. Roth, Leone da Modena and England in: Studies in Books and Booklore (1972) pp.203-4

pp.(22),217 (i.e.117),(3). Lightly damp wrinkled. Contemporary vellum. Sm. 8vo

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