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(NAPOLEON SANHEDRIN). 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. London, William Burton - Charles Taylor, 1807. 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. 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 view of the ”despot” Bonaparte and his ”stage tricks.” (p. vi). Szajkowski, Jews and the French Revolutions (1970) p. 978, no. 71.