Auction 85
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art
By Kestenbaum & Company
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Sold for: $500
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(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
Lancelot Addison (1632-1703) educated at Queen's 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 sufficiently 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).
Lancelot Addison (1632-1703) educated at Queen's 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 sufficiently 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).
