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 229:
(MORTARA, EDGARDO).
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Sold for: $700
Start price:
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700
Estimated price:
$800 - $1,200
Auction house commission: 25%
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(MORTARA, EDGARDO).
Roma e la Opinione Pubblica d'Europa nel Fatto Mortara [“Rome and European Public Opinion concerning the Mortara Affair.”] <<* And:>> Abbé (André-Vincent) Delacouture. Il Diritto Canonico e il Diritto Naturale [“Canon Law and Natural Law.”]
First Italian edition. Two parts in one volume.
pp. 133. Lightly foxed. Recent wrappers. 8vo.
Turin: Unione tipografico-editrice 1859
André-Vincent Delacouture was a French priest who had the courage to criticize Pope Pius IX over his handling of the matter of the young boy Edgardo Mortara, who had been forcibly separated from his Jewish parents by the Church and raised in the Catholic faith.
