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Pusculus, Ubertinus. Duo Libri Symonidos de iudaeorum perfidia... (anti-Jewish work in Latin).
[Augsburg, Johann Otmar], 1511, 19 x 13.5 cm.
[36] leaves. With two attractive woodcut initials and four highly interesting woodcuts (fol. 1r, 4v, 6v, 36v). Foxed and a few minor flaws. Modern leather. Still an excellent copy.
This cultural-historically very important work deals with Simon of Trient of whose murder in 1475 the Jews were accused. The title woodcut and the final woodcut have Simon standing on a Jew and several torture instruments.
M.N. Rosenfeld, Jewish Printing in Augsburg...(London, 1985) No. 4; Proctor 10683.
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[Augsburg, Johann Otmar], 1511, 19 x 13.5 cm.
[36] leaves. With two attractive woodcut initials and four highly interesting woodcuts (fol. 1r, 4v, 6v, 36v). Foxed and a few minor flaws. Modern leather. Still an excellent copy.
This cultural-historically very important work deals with Simon of Trient of whose murder in 1475 the Jews were accused. The title woodcut and the final woodcut have Simon standing on a Jew and several torture instruments.
M.N. Rosenfeld, Jewish Printing in Augsburg...(London, 1985) No. 4; Proctor 10683.
See illustration