Isaac Abendana. Discourses of the Ecclesiastical and Civil Polity of the Jews.

Estimate: $60–$90
Hammer price: $125

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author

(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

printer

Samuel Ballard

Place

London

Publication

1706

Description

FIRST EDITION.

references

Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 330 (no. 9).

summary

Learned essays of Jewish antiquarian interest much of which appeared earlier in the Calendars issued by this Jewish don. Isaac Abendana (c. 1640-1710) taught Hebrew and Rabbinics at various times at Cambridge and Oxford Universities. See A.M. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951) p.60.

pp. (8), 200. Ex-library. Trace foxed. Old tape repairs to title and final leaf. Modern marbled boards. Sm. 8vo.

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