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Auction 73 · Lot 26

Ludwig Philippson. The Crucifixion and the Jews. Translated from the German by Maurice Mayer. With preface by Isaac Leeser.

Estimate
$1,000–$1,500
Hammer price
$900

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

author

(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).

printer

Jones & Hamilton

Place

Philadelphia

Publication

1866

Description

FIRST EDITION.

references

Singerman 1969.

summary

Privately printed by Leeser and issued in just 500 copies. Leeser characterized the tract as a “fender against the assaults of prejudice” (p. iv).
pp. iv, 41. Lightly soiled and stained, tear at foot of pp. 5-6, shaken. Contemporary boards, rubbed, losses to spine. 8vo.
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