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MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL. De la fragilidad humana, y inclinacion del hombre al peccado. Amsterdam: [n.p.], 5402 [1642]. Title page with the famous printer's mark of Menasseh (Yaari 58). 4to, modern calf antique; upper margin of title cropped affecting author's name, *2 bound in between E2 and E3. FIRST EDITION. Wolf III, 1463; Rodr.Castro, 557; Rib.Santos, 340; Kayserling, 69; Palau, 162807; Cat. Menasseh, 40; Den Boer, Catalogue [...] Ets Haim/Livraria Montezinos, n. 406. A treatise on Human Frailty, a work in which Menasseh disputed the Christian doctrine of original sin. The work was also published in Latin in the same year.