Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Sefer Nitzachon – Anti-Christian Polemic – Altdorf and Nuremberg, 1644 – First Edition – With Latin Section
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Sefer Nitzachon, "Liber Nizachon rabbi Lipmanni", work according to the order of the Bible to answer Christian claims against Judaism, by R. Yom Tov Lipmann Muelhausen, with introduction and Latin translation by Theodor Hackspan. Altdorf-Nuremberg: Wolfgang Endter (Nuremberg), 1644. Hebrew and Latin. First edition.
First part of book (in Hebrew) printed in Altdorf, and second part (in Latin, with some Hebrew and Latin) printed in Nuremberg.
Two title pages, first in Hebrew, with fine engraving. Second title page in Latin.
Latin inscriptions on endpaper (quotes from sharp criticism of book in Synagoga Judaica by Johannes Buxtorf).
Latin ownership inscriptions dated 1671 on second title page.
Latin glosses on last leaves.
[16], 512, [24] pages. 19.5 cm. Good condition. Tears, including marginal tear to first title page, and tears affecting text on one leaf, repaired with tape. Original parchment binding, damaged, with tears across spine.
Hebraica – Foreign Language Books: Latin, French, Italian, German, and More
Hebraica – Foreign Language Books: Latin, French, Italian, German, and More 