Bacallar y Sannà, Vicente. Monarchia Hebrea

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $1,500

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author

(SEPHARDICA)

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for Don Gabriel Ramirez

Place

Madrid

Publication

1761

Description

Two volumes. Contains numerous engravings of Biblical Kings of Israel. Head- and tailpieces. Historiated initials

summary

In two dissertations at the conclusion of the book, the author discusses the present whereabouts of the Ten Lost Tribes. In doing so, he draws upon Menasseh ben-Israel’s testimony (based on the deathbed evdence of Antonio Montezinos) of the sighting of remnants of the tribe of Reuben in present-day Ecuador (pp. 376-7). The Spanish historian also cites the testimony of the famous interloper Eldad the Danite and the likelihood that the exiled tribe of Dan took up residence in Ethiopia (p. 380)

Vol. I: pp. (16), 470, (12). Vol. II: pp. 396, (10). Clean, crisp copy, gilt. 4to

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