Les Imposteurs Insignes. Complete in two volumes

AUCTION 9 | Tuesday, March 28th, 2000 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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ROCOLES, JEAN-BAPTISTE DE

Les Imposteurs Insignes. Complete in two volumes

Engraved additional title in Volume I: 22 portraits, including one of Shabbetai Tzvi (cf. Rubens 2234). Engraved fronticepiece to Vol. II Contemporary mottled calf gilt, spines repaired. Sm. 8vo

Brussels: Jean van Vlaenderen 1728

Est: $400 - $600

Enlarged edition of a work on famous “imposters,” chiefly claimants to various thrones or high political offices. The book contains accounts of Bar Kochva, David Alroy, Shabbetai Tzvi and others, concluding with a negative discussion of Jewish messianism in general