Auction 92
Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts
Feb 18, 2021
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USA
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, Suite 1108 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205
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Sold for: $150
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Estimated price:
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Camilo Castelo Branco (Visconde de Correia Botelho). O Judeu: Romance Histórico.
First edition. Two volumes bound in one.
pp. 262, 276. Foxed. Contemporary sheep-backed patterned boards. 8vo.
Porto: Em casa de Viuva Moré 1866
Novel published by the wildly prolific Portuguese writer Castelo Branco (1825-90), the Balzac, or Dickens, of Portugal who was widely read throughout the Portuguese-speaking world. It retells the life of António José da Silva (1705-39), known as O Judeu ("The Jew"), an outstanding dramatist and native of Rio de Janeiro who was deported to Portugal from Brazil by the Inquisition where he was garroted and burnt at a Lisbon auto-da-fe. It is suggested that Castelo Branco himself was of Converso origin. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/António_José_da_Silva and www.youtube.com/watch? v=MZbQVRKagDk.
