Sales catalogue 467: Maggs Bros

Date:
1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/37
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 467: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ‘“ SPANISH PRIVATEERS MAY NOT SEIZE GOODS OF PORTUGUESE JEWS LIVING IN AMSTERDAM. 1 746 A, 1 [119] ABREU Y BERTODANO (f. J.). Tratado juridico-politico sobre presas de mar y calidades que deben concurrir para hacerse legitimamente el corso. 4to, old vellum. (Cadiz), Privately Printed, 1746. £12 12s An extremely interesting book on the right and duties of Corsairs. A very curious chapter deals with the question whether Spanish Privateers may seize goods belonging to Jews if found on ships of a friendly power, and prints a Spanish Royal Decree of 1660 in which the King of Spain agrees to respect the goods of Portuguese Jews living in Amsterdam. WRITTEN IN HEBREW CHARACTERS. 1750 A.D. [i20| ABOU ABD’ ALLAH MOHAMMED BEN OMAR EL-GHAZA- LEVI. Treatise of the Perfumed Jasmine of the Garden or pastimes of Fancy. Chapter I. and the beginning of chapter IJ. Arabic manuscript written in red and black in Hebrew characters on 46 pages of paper. Svo, boards. (Arabia, about 1750). £12 12s 1752 A.D. [12ca] RELACAM DO GRANDE MILAGRE, que Deos Senhor Nosso foy servido obrar na Senta Cidade de Jerusalem, no anno de 1752. Em que padecendo todas aquellas terras grande isterilidade por falta de agua por supplicas dos Padres do Santo Sepulchro, uzou para cum ellas de sua Divina Misericordia. & pp. 2b. Lisbon), 1753, £1 10s A graphic description of the |Catholic procession which took place, under Turkish military escort, along the streets of Jerusalem, when more than eighty Jews, who were said to have interfered with the priests, were ruthlessly slain in the streets, ‘‘ as a well- merited punishment for their infidelity.” 1752 A.D. [121] ARAGAO (Fernao Ximenes de). Triunfo da Religiao Catholica contra a pertinacia do Judaismo, ou compendio da Verdadeira Fé. 4to, old calf. Lisbon, 1752. £3 3s
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