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[MIRABAUD, JEAN-BAPTISTE DE.] Opinions des Anciens sur les Juifs. [2], 127, [3], 129-238 pages. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf gilt, lettering piece off, top of spine chipped, cover corners worn through; minor spotting and smudge on title, contents otherwise generally clean; marbled edges. Embossed stamp of Alfonso Cassuto on title. "Londres" [i. e., Amsterdam?], 1769
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 but sometimes attributed to Baron d'Holbach. Hertzberg, The French Enlightenment and the Jews, pages 308-09; Szajkowski, Franco-Judaica 1617.
