The Fundamental Principles of Modern Judaism Investigated; Together with a Memoir of the Author... and a List of the Six Hundred and Thirteen Precepts: and Addresses to Jews and Christians.
London: B. Wertheim, 1843. First edition. Octavo. xx, xvi, 259, (1)pp. With an index, and a list of approximately 200 subscribers. Text in English with some Hebrew. Original decorative blind stamped brown cloth, nicely rebacked in the 20th century with gilt lettering on spine reading, "Modern Judaism Investigated." Illustrated with 7 plates depicting talith, scapular, phylacteries, etc. The plates include a frontispiece of the religious garb of a Polish Jew, and a later plate of the religious garb of an English Jew. Plus numerous text woodcuts. Front pastedown with an autograph bibliographical note in English and Hebrew. This work is very scarce in the trade.
"Moses Margoliouth (1820–1881), divine, was born of Jewish parents at Suwalki, Poland, on 3 Dec. 1820. He was instructed at Pryerosl, Grodno, and Kalwarya in talmudic and rabbinical learning, and also acquired Russian and German. In August 1837, during a visit to Liverpool, he was induced to carefully study the Hebrew New Testament, with the result that on 13 April 1838 he was baptised a member of the church of England..." (National Dictionary of Biography). Item #53918
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