Auction 92
Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts
Feb 18, 2021
USA
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, Suite 1108 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205
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LOT 176:
(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).
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Sold for: $1,900
Start price:
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1,300
Estimated price:
$1,500 - $2,000
Auction house commission: 25%
sales tax: 8.875% On lot's price, no sales tax on commission
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(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).
H[erman] M. Moos. Mortara: Or, The Pope and his Inquisitors. A Drama. Together with Choice Poems.
First edition.
pp. 171. Foxed, previous owner’s bookplate. Original boards, lightly rubbed. 8vo. Singerman 1675.
Cincinnati: Bloch & Co, Israelite Office 1860
AN EARLY AMERICAN-JEWISH DRAMA. The abduction from his home in Bologna of an Italian-Jewish six-year old boy named Edgardo Mortara and his subsequent forced conversion to Catholicism (with the connivance of Papal authority), appalled the Jewish world. The American Jewish community joined the outrage expressed by world Jewry demanding the return of the child to his parents. See Bertram W. Korn, The American Reaction to the Mortara Case (Cincinnati, 1957).
