Auction 79
THE VALMADONNA TRUST LIBRARY: FURTHER SELECTIONS FROM THE HISTORIC COLLECTION. * HEBREW PRINTING IN AMERICA. * GRAPHIC & CEREMONIAL ART
Nov 15, 2018
USA
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Giovanni di Giovanni. L’Ebraismo della Sicilia [“The Jews of Sicily”].
First Edition. Few finely engraved vignettes. Wider margins.
pp. (20), 420. Touch foxed. Contemporary calf-backed patterned boards, scuffed. 4to.
Palermo: Giuseppe Gramignani 1748
<< The first study on the Jews of Sicily.>>===Jewish settlement on this island located south-west from the Italian peninsula began as early as the Second Temple Era. Communities flourished in the countryside as well as in cities such as Palermo, Cantania and Messina. Since Sicily was a possession of the Spanish crown, the Alhambra Decree of 1492 effectively ended Jewish settlement. Jews were formally invited to return in 1740.
