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Guénée defends the Jews against Voltaire's criticisms of their religion and way of life.
Guénée defends the Jews against Voltaire's criticisms of their religion and way of life.
Guénée defends the Jews against Voltaire's criticisms of their religion and way of life.
Guénée defends the Jews against Voltaire's criticisms of their religion and way of life.

[GUÉNÉE, Antoine].

Letters of certain Jews to Monsieur de Voltaire. Containing an apology for their own people, and for the Old Testament; with critical reflections and a short commentary extracted from a greater. In two volumes. Translated by the Rev. Philip Lefanu, D.D....

Dublin, printed by William Watson, and sold by J. R. and G. Priestley, London, [1777].

£1,400.00
£1,400.00

Letters of certain Jews to Monsieur de Voltaire.

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Antoine Guénée (1717 – 1803) was a French priest and Christian apologist, born at Étampes. He wrote, besides various apologetic works, Lettres de Quelques Juifs Portugais, Allemands et Polonais, à M. de Voltaire, Paris, 1769, often reprinted and translated into English and other languages. Along with the prominent Sephardic Jew, Isaac De Pinto, Guénée defends the Jews against Voltaire's criticisms of their religion and way of life.

One of 2 Dublin imprints in 1777. This one is rare, ESTC listing only 5 copies.

First edition. 8vo, 2 vols, edge browning to titles, contemporary calf crudely rebacked, new endpapers, rather worn and rubbed. 445; [iv], 428 pp.

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Guénée defends the Jews against Voltaire's criticisms of their religion and way of life.

Letters of certain Jews to Monsieur de Voltaire.

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