Letters of certain Jews to Monsieur 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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guénée, Antoine, 1717-1803.

Contributor:

Le Fanu, Philip, approximately 1735-

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Voltaire, 1694-1778.

Voltaire.

Bible. Old Testament--Evidences, authority, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament.

Jews--History.

Jews.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Kaplan, Deanne (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Richman, Thelma B. (autograph, Phila.) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes in 1. (519 pages, 3 unnumbered pages) ; 22 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

s.he t.s. t.l- onhi (7) 1795 (R)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed by William Young, bookseller, no. 52, Second-Street, the corner of Chesnut-Street, M,DCC,XCV. [1795]

Notes:

Paged continuously.

Volume 2 without title-page.

Attributed to Antoine Guénée in the Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne, Paris, 1817, v. 19.

Translation of Lettres de quelques juifs portugais et allemands a M. de Voltaire.

Error in paging: p. 210 misnumbered 102.

Local Notes:

Kaplan Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan.

RBR # 4112-3.

Kaplan Collection copy collectify accession no. 2006.12.26.00658

Cited in:

Evans 28781

Rosenbach, A.S.W. Amer. Jewish bib., 103

OCLC:

2456307