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(AMERICAN-JUDAICA). LOPEZ, CANCELADA JUAN. Decreto de Napoleon emperador de los Franceses, sobre los Judios residentes en Francia, y deliberaciones que tomaron éstos en su cumplimiento, con un resumen de otros sucesos interesantes. FIRST EDITION. Spanish text. With one ENGRAVED MAP ”Paso de los Israelitas de la Asia ala America, ” and SEVEN ENGRAVED PLATES . pp. (6), 134. Lightly browned, few stains in places. A pencil inscription on rear pastedown records: “Maggs Bros. £10.10 in 1922.” Contemporary speckled calf, rubbed. 4to. Medina, Imprenta en México no. 9965. Mexico City, Mariano de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1807.     The author celebrates Napoleon’s acts of legislative emancipation benefitting the Jews of France. Among Cancelada’s various historical excursions here, his study of Jewish history primarily focuses on persecution in Spain, noting the dark processes of interrogation utilized by the Church’s Inquisition and the harsh punishments delivered for crimes of heresy and moral lapses with plates depicting punishments and torture.     Notably includes a section DEMONSTRATING THAT AMERICAN INDIANS WERE A LOST TRIBE OF ISRAEL. The map depicts Siberia and ALASKA as a possible route of migration.       THIS HIGHLY SCARCE WORK providing long accounts of the customs and history of the Jews both in and out of Spain contains chapter-headings including the following: * An account of the Talmud. * An account of the Rabbis, of the Hebrews and interpreters of the Sacred Scriptures. * Principal ceremonies of the Rabbis, and Hebrew people. * Ceremonies and prayers of the Jews outside the Synagogue. * Reasons found in various modern authors that the first inhabitants of America came from Tartary, * crossing the Straits of Anian from Cape Lawrence to Cape Gales. * Letters of William Penn and other discoverers in the North-East who proved this. * Proof that these Indians were Israelites. * An account of the position of the Jews in France, and the Grand Sanhedrin called together by Napoleon. JUAN LOPEZ CANCELADA. Born in Cancelada de Aguiar (León), north-west Spain in 1765, the author moved to New Spain in the Americas where he rose to become editor of the newspaper La Gazeta de México, the official organ of the government of Mexico. He had a notable altercation with the Inquisition when defending Napoleon's decision to restore the Great Sanhedrin of the Jews, a problem that was solved after Cancelada pleaded ‘ignorance’ before the ecclesiastical court, as he had done prior, soon after his arrival in the New World. www.mcnbiografias.com/app-bio/do/show? key=lopez-cancelada-juan. www.elbierzodigital.com/juan-lopez-cancelada-un-periodista-berciano-en-la- nueva-espana/274483