[DESFORGES, PIERRE]. Memoires Anecdotes pour servir a l’histoire de M. Duliz, fameux Juif Portugais a La Haye

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Lot 117

(ANGLO JUDAICA)

[DESFORGES, PIERRE]. Memoires Anecdotes pour servir a l’histoire de M. Duliz, fameux Juif Portugais a La Haye

FIRST EDITION. Title in red and black with engraved vignette. Extraordinary anti-semitic engraved frontispiece portraying an iron cage and tall gallows at the ready Contemporary wrappers. 12mo

London (i.e. Paris?): Samuel Harding 1739

Est: $2,500 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,500

Jacob Lopez de Liz was an enormously wealthy Portuguese Jew who moved to The Hague from London. His luxurious life-style, and extravagant pursual of art, music (and possibly women), resulted in wide-spread envy. This scurrilous work was penned by the manager of The Hague’s French Comedy Theater, who had been unable to stand up to the competition of a theatrical company formed by de Liz. With the notorious Jud-Süss trial and barbarous hanging having occured just a year earlier in Germany, this libelous attack suggests a similar fate for the “Dutch Jud-Süss.” See M.H. Gans, Memorbook (1971) pp.240-1; and for the de Liz Family in England, see A.M. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1950) pp.212-3