SPITZELL, GOTTLEIB. Elevatio relationis Monetzinianae de Repertis in America Tribubus Israeliticis; et discussion argumentorum pro origine Gentium Americanarum Israelitica a Menasse Ben Israel in [Hebrew] seu spe Israelis Conquisitorum. Basle: Joannes Knig, 1661. 8vo, contemporary vellum, covers dust soiled, upoper blank margin and a portion of blank fore margin of title leaf restored, slight similar losses restored in )(3, )(4 and )(5, small hole in )(4 and )(5, title soiled. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 89546; not in Prijs [Bound with:] BUXTORF, J. Thesaurus Grammaticus Linguae Sanctae Hebraeae. Basle, 1651. Prijs 255.

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SPITZELL, GOTTLEIB. Elevatio relationis Monetzinianae de Repertis in America Tribubus Israeliticis; et discussion argumentorum pro origine Gentium Americanarum Israelitica a Menasse Ben Israel in [Hebrew] seu spe Israelis Conquisitorum. Basle: Joannes Knig, 1661. 8vo, contemporary vellum, covers dust soiled, upoper blank margin and a portion of blank fore margin of title leaf restored, slight similar losses restored in )(3, )(4 and )(5, small hole in )(4 and )(5, title soiled. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 89546; not in Prijs [Bound with:] BUXTORF, J. Thesaurus Grammaticus Linguae Sanctae Hebraeae. Basle, 1651. Prijs 255.

Spitzell's work is a refutation of Menasseh Ben Israel's Hope of Israel (1650) which dealt with the reputed discovery by Aaron Levi Montezinos of the Lost Ten Tribes in South America. A later edition, with the same imprint and collation, is dated 1663. Surprisingly, there are no records in ABPC as far back as 1970.

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