b'31(ANGLO-JUDAICA). Lancelot Addison. The Present State of the Jews: (More Particularly Relating to those in Barbary) Wherein is Contained an Exact Account of their Customs, Secular and Religious, to which is Annexed a Summary Discourse of the Misna, Talmud, and Gemara.FIRST EDITION.Engraved frontispiece of Native Indian in local dress, masthead above reads, The Present State of the Jews in Barbary. Provenance: Britwell Court; Fairfax of Cameron. pp. (10), 249, (7). Contemporary mottled calf, rubbed. 8vo. London, J.C. for William Crooke, 1675. $500 - $700 Lancelot Addison (1632-1703) educated at Queens College, Oxford, served (1662-70) as chaplain of the garrison at Tangiers. His sojourn there afforded him exceptional opportunities for the study of alien customs and habits. An inquiring and sympathetic bent of mind induced Addison to became sufciently interested in the condition of the Jews to produce the present work.Despite the Re-admission of the Jews to England in 1656, there was a total lack of pictorial evidence of them. Hence the publisher borrowed the present frontispiece from another work concerning an entirely different subject. (See Rubens, Jewish Iconography no. 1893).32(ANGLO-JUDAICA). John Xeres. An Address to the Jews Containing His Reasons for Leaving the Jewish, and Embracing the Christian Religion.FIRST EDITION.Preface in Hebrew. pp. (16), 115, (1). Lightly browned. Contemporary crushed morocco, gilt extra, upper portion of backstrip worn. 8vo. London, J. Heptinstall for Anthony Barker, 1710. $500 - $700 The speaker writes of himself by way of introduction: I am descended of a family which has been settled at Saphia And I was born there of a father so zealous for his religion, that, being able to support the charge of such an education, he designed to make me a Rabbin I have been very well versed in the Scriptures from my earliest youth; and, for several years, have been engaged in the study of the Talmuds.16'