Lancelot Addison

A finely bound edition of The Present State of the Jews by Lancelot Addison.

• Lancelot Addison (English).
• The present state of the Jews: Wherein is contained an exact account of their customs, secular and religious. To which is annexed a summary discourse of the Misna, Talmud, & Gemara. By L. Addison, D.D. one of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary; and author of the primitive institution.
• London: Printed by J.C. for William Crooke, at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar, 1676.
• Octavo.
• [12], 247, [5] pages.
• Second edition (corrected by the author).
• Engraved frontispiece (trimmed close), title-page printed in red and black, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, morocco lettering piece.

The Jewish community of the Barbary Coast. An interesting early account of life and customs of the Jewish community of the Barbary Coast.

Lancelot Addison (1632-1703) was an English author and Church of England clergyman, he was educated at Queens College, Oxford, and worked as a chaplain in Tangier for seven years in the 1660s. Some scholars point out that part of this work largely repeats material found in the English translation of Johannes Buxtorf's Synagoga Judaica: The Jewish Synagogue, or, an Historical Narration of the State of the Jewes... (London, 1657).