Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210
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Sale 2210 - Lot 183

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COSTA MATTOS, VICENTE DA. Breve Discurso contra a Heretica Perfidia do Judaismo. [18], 186, [20] leaves, with title and next 5 preliminaries supplied from the 1622 original edition * Honras Christãs nas Afrontas de Jesu Christo, e Segunda Parte do primeiro discurso contra a heretica perfidia do judaismo. [18], 160, [16] (of [18]) leaves; lacks last 2 leaves of the index of scriptural citations. Together, 2 volumes in one. 4to, contemporary limp vellum, recased, endpapers renewed; occasional marginal soiling and dampstaining, scattered contemporary marginalia. Late 19th-/early 20th-century Portuguese owner's bibliographical notes in pencil on pastedowns. Lisbon: Pedro Craesbeeck, 1622 [i. e., 1623]; 1625
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scarce and vile works of portuguese antisemitica. Second edition of the first title, a justification of the burning of Judaizing Marranos by the Inquisition, and first edition of the second, "a collection of libels and invective against Judaism; the Jews are described as 'the pestilence of the world' and charged with homosexuality, ritual murder, etc.' " (EJ). EJ V, 989; Innocencio VII, 423-424; Pinto de Mattos, pages 200-201.