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LOT 246:
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(NAPOLEON).
TAMA, DIOGENE. Transactions of the Parisian Sanhedrin. Or Acts of the Assembly of Israelitish Deputies of France and Italy, Convoked at Paris by an Imperial and Royal Decree.
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. With preface and notes by F.D. Kirwan. CHIEF RABBI DR. HERMANN ADLER COPY (with his stamps).
pp. xvi, 334, (2). Lightly foxed. Marbled boards, rebacked. 8vo. Szajkowski, Jews and the French Revolutions (1970) p. 978, no. 71.
London: William Burton - Charles Taylor 1807
Translation of Actes du Grand Sanhedrin (Paris, 1806-7) by the French-Jewish editor Diogene Tama. The Preface by Englishman F.D. Kirwan takes an especially jaundiced glance at the "despot" Bonaparte and his "stage tricks." (p. vi).
