Apr 02, 2009 - Sale 2175

Sale 2175 - Lot 61

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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
CARDOSO, ISAAC. Philosophia libera. [16], 758, [22] pages, including final blank. Folio, modern olive morocco, spine slightly faded and rubbed; minor marginal foxing, dampstaining in lower outer corners toward end. Venice: Bertanorum sumptibus, 1673
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first edition of the author''s magnum opus, a massive treatise covering topics in science, medicine, philosophy, and theology, "the first major work in general philosophy to be written and published by a professing Jew in a secular language, and intended from the outset to reach a wide European audience" (Yerushalmi). Krivatsy 2165; Palau 44098 (not having seen a copy, citing Menéndez Pelayo); Yerushalmi, From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto (1971), pages 216-301.