The Hope of Israel. With: Moses Wall. Some Discourses upon the Point of the Conversion of the Jewes.

Estimate: $15,000–$20,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL

printer

R.I. for Livewell Chapman

Place

London

Publication

1652

Description

Second edition.

summary

The great Dutch Rabbi’s celebrated treatise on the Lost Ten Tribes and the related revelations of Antonio Montesinos. This second edition is different from the first edition and is distinctly more rare. A highly important work that persuaded Oliver Cromwell to enact the Re-admission of the Jews to England in 1656.

pp. (10), 62. Trimmed, touch foxed. Modern boards. 4to.

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