72 141 (DENMARK). Asser Daniel Cohen. De mosaiske Troesbekjenderes Stilling i Danmark forhen og nu … tilligemed alle Lovsteder og offentlige Foranstaltninger dem angaaende, som ere udkomne fra 1651 til 1836. FIRST EDITION. Text in Danish. pp. xv, 468, (1). Ex-library, lightly stained and foxed. Later calf-baked marbled, spine titled in gilt, rubbed. 8vo. Odense (Denmark), Forfatterens Forlag, 1837. $600-900 ❧ A Danish rabbinic scholar, the author (1794-1863) composed this work, the first of its kind in the vernacular, providing a comprehensive detailed history of the Jews in Denmark, including a focus on how legal enactments affected their emancipation. Jews was permitted to live in Denmark only in 1684 and emancipated as Danish citizens from 1814. ACCOMPANIED BY: A critical review of Cohen’s work by a anonymous Danish clergyman: Nogle Bemærkninger over en geistlig Mands Anmeldelse og Betragtning af Hr. Katechet A.D. Cohen’s Skrift: De mosaiske Troesbekjenderes Stilling i Danmark, Odense 1837. DENMARK: See also lots 122, 130, 173, 180. 142 EMDEN, JACOB. Tzitzim Uperachim [dictionary of the Kabbalah]. FIRST EDITION. ff. 21. Browned and trimmed, paper repair on opening and final leaf. Later marbled boards, spine chipped. Sm. 4to.[Vinograd, Altona 91; Raphael 15] Altona, By the Author, 1768. $2000-3000 ❧ One of Jacob Emden’s most interesting scholarly works, displaying his acuity, mathematical ability and erudition in Kabbalistic matters. 143 ERGAS, JOSEPH. Divrei Yoseph [responsa]. FIRST EDITION. Title within three-piece ornamental border. A WIDE-MARGINED, LARGE-PAPER COPY. ff. (1), 110. Some dampstaining, strip removed from f. 83 not affecting text, final leaf repaired, decorative pencil doodling. Modern morocco. Sm. folio.[Vinograd, Livorno 32.] Livorno, Abraham Meldola, 1742. $300-500 ❧ With an interesting introduction by Ergas’s disciple R. Malachi HaKohen (author of Yad Malachi) which includes a detailed biography of the author. Ergas (1685-1730) established a Yeshiva in Pisa and later served as Rabbi of Livorno. In addition to his halachic scholarship, Ergas is renowned for his polemics against Nehemia Hayon refuting Sabbatian belief. See E. Carlebach, The Pursuit of Heresy (1990) pp. 137-43. Lot 141 Lot 142 Lot 143