Historia de los Judios en España

  • Hardcover
  • Cádiz: Revista Médica, 1847
By Castro, D. Alfonso de
Cádiz: Revista Médica, 1847. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. 224pp. followed by 29pp of appendices. Contemporary quarter leather, spine gilt, marbled ans embossed paper over boards, marbled endpapers and edges. Inner hinge and spine neatly mended, edges worn, else this is a very good copy.


The scarce first printing of Castro's groundbreaking History of the Jews in Spain. A member of the Royal Academy, he was so impartial that he felt a need to remark on page 8: "Escribo esta historia sin pasion, ni artificio, como de cosas que nada me tocan. Ni soi judio, ni vengo de judaizantes" (I write this history dispassionately and without craft, as concerning things that do not touch me. I am not a Jew, nor am I of Jewish descent.) Unlike others who followed him, he condemned the Inquisition. His HIstory was translated into English in 1851 by Rev. Edward Kirwan, Cambridge. In Spanish.

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Details

Title

Historia de los Judios en España

Author

Castro, D. Alfonso de

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Very Good

Publisher

Revista Médica: Cádiz

Date

1847

Edition

First edition


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