Mikveh Israel [“Hope of Israel.”] Translated from Dutch to Hebrew by Elyakim ben Jacob Schatz. ff. 66. * Bound with: Benjamin of Tudela. Masa’oth shel Rabi Benyamin [“Travels of Benjamin of Tudela.”] ff. 27.

Estimate: $700–$1,000
Hammer price: $600

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author

MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL.

printer

Asher Anshel & Partners, and Caspar Steen

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1698

Description

Two works in one volume.

references

Vinograd, Amst. 660 and 659.

summary

FIRST HEBREW EDITION of Esperança de Israel, Menasseh ben Israel’s treatise on the Ten Lost Tribes and the related revelations of Antonio Montezinos (Aaron Levi), a Marrano interloper in New Spain (today Ecuador). An important work that laid the groundwork for the Re-admission of the Jews to England in 1656.

Browned and stained. Modern calf, spine tilted in gilt. 16mo.

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