
Description
by Boyer d'Argens
Amsterdam ; 1737
Missing frontispiece
D.L. Cumming signature
Original vellum binding, manuscript title to spine,
Size 3 1/4 by 5"
Text in French
First edition, rare.
Title page in red and black.
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Worthy representative of the Enlightenment, Boyer d'Argens is a philosophical writer, skeptic and pamphleteer, his series of critical books and correspondence, in the manner of Persian Letters ( Jewish, Chinese letters, caballistic letters) made him famous.
In the Epistle, the author confesses his motivations in writing this novel, the Jewish usurer who played during his military time, he claims here paint an honest Jew. The work is actually a libertine novel recounting the love of Count Vaxere intended prior to the ecclesiastical state. The love of a Venetian Jewish will lead to a conversion.
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1737 MEMOIRES DU COMTE DE VAXERE OU LE FAUX RABIN antique vellum bound Judaica
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Starting Price
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Ink of Ages: 15th-19th Century Antique Books
Feb 26, 2026 7:00 PM ESTNew York, NY, United States
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