Origen De Los Americanos. מקוה ישראל.‏ Esto Es Esperanza De Israel ... Reimpresion ... Del Libro De Menasseh Ben Israel ... Publicado En Amsterdam 5410 (1650) ... y la biografia del autor, Por Santiago Perez Junquera. Madrid.――1881.... 8º. xxxvi. _pp._ + 8 _ll._ + 126 _pp._ + 3 _ll._ in printed wrapper as issued. [I. S.] ³ _Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England_, vol. vii., 1911‒1914 ... Edinburgh and London, 1915 ... _p._ 127: “A Dutch Burial-Ground and its English Connections.” By the Rev. Isidore Harris, M.A. V. “SPES ISRAELIS,” BY MANASSEH BEN-ISRAEL מקוה ישראל | _Hoc est_, | Spes | Israelis. | _Authore_ | Menasseh Ben Israel | Theologo & Philosopho Hebræo. Amstelodami. | Anno 1650. | (_sm._ 8º. 6 _ll._ + 111 _pp._) [I. S.] _sig._ [A2] Svpremo Angliæ Consessvs Parlamento, _ejusdemque Reipublicæ Status Consilio Honorando_, Salutem, ac felicitatem omnem, a Deo apprecatur Menasseh Ben Israel.¹ ¹ This translation was probably the work of the author. Bound up with this copy is a folded engraving of the author by Salom Italia. VI. “HOPE OF ISRAEL――TEN TRIBES ... IN AMERICA――מקוה ישראל DE HOOP VAN ISRAEL,” BY MANASSEH BEN-ISRAEL The | Hope of Israel: | Written | By Menasseh Ben Israel, | an Hebrew Divine, and Philosopher. | Newly extant, and Printed in | _Amsterdam_, and Dedicated by the | Author to the High Court, the | Parliament of _England_, and | to the | Councell of State. | Translated into _English_, and | published by Authority. | _In this Treatise is shewed the place where the ten | Tribes at this present are, proved, partly by | the strange relation of one_ Antony Monte-|zinus, _a_ Jew, _of what befell him as he tra-|velled over the Mountaines_ Cordillære, _with | divers other particulars about the restoration of | the_ Jewes, _and the time when._ | Printed at _London_ by R. I. for _Hannah Allen_, | at the Crown in Popes-head | Alley, 1650. | (_sm._ 8º. 7 _ll._ + 90 _pp._) [I. S.] _sig._ A3. “To the Parliament, the Supream Court of _England_, and to the right Honourable the Councell of State, _Menasseh Ben Israell_, prayes God to give health, and all Happinesse.” But the original edition in Spanish is dedicated “_A los Muy Nobles, Prudentes, y Magnificos Señores, Deputados y Parnassim deste K.K. de Talmud Tora_.” ... _Amsterdā. a 13 de Sebat. An. 5410._ In this first English version the name of the translator does not appear on the title page, nor does “The Translator to the Reader” bear any signature; but “Moses Wall” does appear on the title pages of two issues of a second edition which appeared in 1651 and 1652. (_4to._ 5 _ll._ + 62 _pp._) [B. M.]