Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 61

Price Realized: $ 260
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
[MIRABAUD, JEAN-BAPTISTE DE.] Opinions des Anciens sur les Juifs. [2], 127, [3], 129-238 pages. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, 157x93 mm, contemporary calf gilt, spine ends chipped, joints cracked, cords intact; scattered foxing, pencil underscoring and marginalia throughout, title to second part trimmed in blank outer margin. Pencil signature and bookplate of William Berrian; rubberstamp and perforated stamp of Meadville Theological School on title and C6, their ink accession note on leaf after general title, "Londres" [i. e., Amsterdam?], 1769

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Expanded version of a work originally published in 1740 on anti-Judaic attitudes in pre-Christian antiquity. Pages 129-238 contain Reflexions Impartiales sur l'Évangile, supposedly also by Mirabaud. Hertzberg, The French Enlightenment and the Jews, pages 308-09; Szajkowski, Franco-Judaica 1617.