Addison, L[ancelot]. The Present State of the Jews: Wherein is Contained an Exact Account of their Customs, Secular and Religious. To which is annxed a summary discourse of the Misna, Talmud, & Gemara

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $500

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author

(ANGLO-JUDAICA)

printer

for William Crooke

Place

London

Publication

1676

Description

Second Edition (first edition was 1675). Title in red and black. Engraved frontispiece of native Indian in local dress, masthead above reads, "The Present State of the Jews in Barbary."

references

Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 394, no.22; Wing A-527

summary

Despite the Re-admission of the Jews to England in 1656, there was a total lack of pictorial material of them. The present frontispiece was clearly borrowed from another work concerning an entirely different subjects. (See Rubens 1893)

pp. (12), 247, (5). Trace foxed. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, rubbed, dentelles, spine in compartments, gilt, portion of spine missing. 12mo

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