Auction 1 · Lot 20

Dinim de Sejita y Bedica Traducidos del Suljan Aruh En Idioma Espanola, Con todas Las Circunstancias, que Requiere nuestra Santa Ley, por Estilo muy Breve.

Estimate: $6,000–$7,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(ANGLO-JUDAICA). MENDOZA, AARON.

printer

n.p

Place

London

Publication

15th Tebet 5492 - [1732/33?]

Description

FIRST EDITION. Four engraved plates (drawn by Mendoza) of animal intestines, printed in red.

summary

An apparantly unrecorded edition of an extremely rare compendium in Spanish of laws of ritual slaughter. Roth (B11,14), Kayserling (p.70) and the British Museum Catalogue (vol.V, p.88) all note a 1733 edition with a differing title and pagination. This is the only known work of Aaron Mendoza, an Anglo-Sephardi engraver and father of the English boxing champion, Daniel Mendoza. See A.M. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951) p.115; A. Rosenthal (Book-Dealer), Catalogue XI - Anglo-Judaica (1948) no.681.

(pp.57): ff.(2),pp.1-11,(10),13-18,(4),19-(24),(4),25-34,(2), lightly foxed and stained, previous owner’s signatures, one f. loose, modern boards, 8vo

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