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Letters of Certain Jews to Monsieur Voltaire, Containing An Apology for Their Own People, and For the Old Testament. With Critical Reflections, and a Short Commentary Extracted from a Greater; with Christian Notes and Additions on Various Parts ...
by [Guenee, Antoine] & Philip Lefanu (Translator)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Herman Hooker, 1848. For over two centuries the question of the anti-Judaism of "Voltaire" [Francois-Marie Arouet 1694-1778] has perplexed and been debated. A brilliant child of the Enlightenment and a prolific satirist like Jonathan Swift, his works spew an excessive dislike for Jews. But he was a Deist, uncomfortable with superstition and the revealed religion of the Old Testament; when admonished by the Sephardic Jew Issac Pinto, he admitted to error and thought to correct himself. This supposed Jewish answer was actually written by the Christian apologist Antoine Guenee [1717-1803] and appears less a defense of Judaism and more an assault on Deism. Philip Lefanu [c. 1735-1795] first published his translation in Dublin in 1777. This is a Very Good copy of the Third American Edition (stated). A rather scarce title. Brown cloth binding with stamped ruling and decorations to the covers; titling in gilt on the spine. The original two volumes are here combined into one. Clean text; xii, continues from page 13 to 612. Rubbing to the margins, with a short tear to the head of the spine.The text is nicely bright but there is spotting to the endpapers and page ends. . Third Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Quercus Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005622
- Title
- Letters of Certain Jews to Monsieur Voltaire, Containing An Apology for Their Own People, and For the Old Testament. With Critical Reflections, and a Short Commentary Extracted from a Greater; with Christian Notes and Additions on Various Parts ...
- Author
- [Guenee, Antoine] & Philip Lefanu (Translator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Publisher
- Herman Hooker
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1848
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Quercus Rare Books
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Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Cloth
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- Rubbing
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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