MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL

Estimate: $700–$1,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

printer

J. Morphew

Place

London

Publication

1708

Description

The Second Volume of The Phenix: or, a Revival of Scarce and Valuable Pieces No-where to be Found but in the Closets of the Curious (includes Menasseh Ben Israel, Defence of the Jews, and a Catalogue of Books published by Manasseh Ben Israel, on pp. 391-426)

references

Roth, Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p.209

summary

Vindiciae Judaeorum was composed by Menasseh in 1656, during his stay in England to defend the Jews against the attacks then being voiced, and in the hope that he could yet persuade Oliver Cromwell, to formally readmit the Jews. Frustrated at his failure to achieve his objective, Menasseh returned to Amsterdam in 1657, dying shortly thereafter. See EJ, Vol. XI, col. 857

pp. 16, 552. Trace foxed. Contemporary calf. Spine cracked, front board detached, back board missing. Sm. 4to

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