SARUCO, JAHACOB. Avizos Espirituaës e Instrucçoëns Sagradas, para Cultivar o Engenho da Juventude, no Amor, & Temor Divino [“Spiritual Advice and Sacred Instructions to Raise the Youth in the Love and Fear of God.”]

Estimate

$1,000–$1,500

Hammer price

Not recorded

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author

DE LEON, ISHAC &.

printer

Gerhard Johan Janson in the House of Israel Mondovy

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1766

Description

FIRST EDITION. Portuguese and Hebrew. Copious marginalia in Dutch and Spanish

references

Kayserling 98

summary

The book bears the Approbation of the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Amsterdam, Shelomo Salem, as well as several laudatory poems in Hebrew, including one by David ben Yitzchak Leon, son of one of the two co-authors. The book consists of twenty-four Dialogues betwen Disciple and Master. These cover a broad array of topics regarding Jewish laws and custom. Ishac de Leon, from a Marrano family, resided in Bayonne, where his son David was born. By the time of the book's publication, De Leon was living in Amsterdam. The co-author Jacob Saruco was Chief Rabbi of The Hague. See M.H. Gans, Memorbook (1977), p. 427

pp.(16), 111, (1). All edges gilt. Blind-tooled mottled calf, starting. 8vo

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