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(COSTA, URIEL DA.) Limborch, Philipp van. Vriendelyke Onderhandeling met een geleerden Jood, over de Waarheid van den Christelyken Godsdienst. [38], 747, [8] pages. 4to, contemporary vellum with white ink markings and shelf label on spine, recased, endpapers renewed; insignificant marginal foxing and stains, old institutional stamp on title. Amsterdam: Pieter Visser, 1723
first edition in dutch of Limborch's theological disputation with the Marrano philosopher Isaac Orobio de Castro (1620-87), originally published in 1687 in Latin. Appended to both the original edition and this translation is 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.
