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(COSTA, URIEL DA.) Limborch, Philipp van. De veritate religionis Christianae collatio cum erudito Judaeo. [16], 364, [14] pages. 4to, old panelled calf, worn, rebacked with morocco, endpapers renewed; some marginal soiling and foxing, opening leaves rehinged. Embossed stamp of Alfonso Cassuto on title. Gouda: Justus ab Houve, 1687
first edition of the autobiography of the Marrano philosopher and free-thinker Uriel Da Costa (1585-1640), which he composed before committing suicide, followed by a refutation of his ideas by Limborch. "Da Costa became a hero of the fight against religious intolerance, and a precursor of modern Bible criticism and naturalistic thought"--EJ V, 987-88. EP II, 244.
