(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: Not recorded

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J.D. for Richard Chiswell

Place

London

Publication

1680

Description

(Gilbert Burnet). The Conversion & Persecutions of Eve Cohan, now called Elizabeth Verboon, a person of quality of the Jewish religion; Who was Baptized the 10th of October, 1680. At St. Martins in the Fields, by the Right Reverend Father in God, William, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph.

references

Wing B-5772.

summary

The celebrated English divine Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715) wrote this account of a Jewish heiress from Holland who braved her mother’s pleas and her former co-religionists’ persecution to convert to Christianity. Not wishing to embrace the “idolatrous” Christianity (i.e. Roman Catholicism) that was practiced on the Continent, she fled to England, where she was baptized as an Anglican by William Lloyd, Bishop of St. Asaph.

pp. (6), 27. Touch stained. Modern wrappers. Sm. 4to.

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