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[false imprint for: london, 1729]. \n \n first edition. two works bound together (as issued). \n \n browned. opening title worn, final leaf with paper repairs affecting couple of words. modern boards. 8vo. \n kayserling 77 \n \n an anonymously penned response by the celebrated haham of london to a vicious sermon preached before sixty-six miserable victims of an auto-da-fé held in lisbon in 1705. \n \n the brutal tirade was delivered by dom diego da annunciacoa justiniano, the titular archbishop of cranganor, india. upon it\u2019s publication, nieto was moved to provide a fitting response to the archbishop\u2019s severe misuses of jewish sources in attempting to prove the truth of christianity. \n \n nieto\u2019s brilliant tract is one of cool, clear-headed theological scholarship. the enterprise was necessitated by the relentless pressure exerted by the inquisition upon the marranos of portugal, a painful and ongoing problem of 18th century jewish life. \n \n the haham\u2019s spanish reply was issued together here with the original portuguese sermon of 1705. (moses mocatta produced an english translation of this celebrated work in 1845, which isaac leeser published in philadelphia in 1860). \n \n after noting just two copies of nieto\u2019s refutation held in private hands, israel solomons records that \u201cnot a single copy is known to exist in any public library.\u201d (see jhset, vol. xii pp. 1-99, esp. p. 55). see also h.p. salomon, new light on the portuguese inquisition: the second reply to the archbishop of cranganor, in: studia rosenthaliana, vol. v no. 2 (1971) pp. 178-86. \n \n another copy of this book was sold by kestenbaum, sale 62, lot 133."},"estimateMax":7000,"lotNumber":"105","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/40506/lot/120656/view","tags":["usjudaica_books","usjudaica_all","usjudaica"],"directSalePrice":2500,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-08-10T01:38:58.452Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$5,000 - $7,000","currency":"USD","id":120656,"category":{"en":"Judaic Printed 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provide testimony, but even justifying the high price demanded of the work: \n \u201ca monument of sacred art and beautiful craftsmanship. the work represents the acme of book-production and color-printing of our age\u2026(it) will remain\u2026long after other creations of the 20th century have disappeared.\u201d \n \u201cyou may think the price of one hundred guineas sounds unusually high, but when you have been good enough to consider the full facts, you will appreciate that the value - and extremely good value - is there at this price.\u201d \n \n * with: additional two leaf-specimen. and: contemporary newspaper articles relating to szyk\u2019s 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(1754-1832), was a delegate to the assembly of jewish notables convened by napoleon in 1806. in 1807 he was given the honorific \u201chaham\u201d and appointed vice president of the sanhedrin (supporting r. david sinzheim). de cologna served as one of the three grand rabbins of the central consistoire, later assuming the position of president and first chief rabbi of france. toward the end of his career he returned to his native italy and occupied the pulpit in trieste. \n \n in toldot gedolei yisrael u\u2019geonei italia, r. mordechai shmuel ghirondi notes: \u201c[de cologna] was accorded great honor upon his passing, and was eulogized across both france and italy\" (p. 45)."},"estimateMax":1200,"lotNumber":"172","url":"https://us.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/kestenbaum/source/catalog/auction/40506/lot/120723/view","tags":["usart_printsandmultiples","usart","usart_all"],"directSalePrice":500,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-08-10T01:39:10.245Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"$800 - 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