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(ISRAEL, LAND OF). Cunaeus, Petrus. De Republyk der Hebreen, Of Gemeenebest der Joden [“The Republic of the Hebrews, On the Commonwealth of the Jews.”] Plates and maps, some folding. pp. (28), 556, (24). Vol. II (of 3). Worn and stained in places. Contemporary vellum, rubbed. 8vo. Amsterdam, Willem Goeree, 1683.     Peter van der Cunaeus (1586-1638) was a professor at Leiden. “De Republica Hebraeorum is an essentially conventional presentation of the traditional Calvinist views on biblical antiquity and on Judaism and the Jews…The true novelty of his work, however, consists in its quarrying of the Mishneh Torah for the study [of] the ancient Jewish commonwealth.” See Aaron L. Katchen, Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis (1984) p. 39.