Hazard, Cornelius. Kerckelycke Historie van de Gheheele Werelt, Vol. IV (only) [History of Turkey, Palestine, Syria, Greece, Muscovy, Persia, Morocco, and Tartary]

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Hazard, Cornelius. Kerckelycke Historie van de Gheheele Werelt, Vol. IV (only) [History of Turkey, Palestine, Syria, Greece, Muscovy, Persia, Morocco, and Tartary]

ONLY EDITION. Between pages 236-237, and again between pp. 242-243, huge plates of Shabbetai Zevi (false Messiah of Izmir) and Nathan of Gaza (Zevi’s prophet) and other personalities. pp. (12), 412, (23). Stained. Morocco backed modern boards. Folio. Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi (Princeton, 1975), p. 940, no. 50

Antwerp: Michiel Cnobbaert 1671

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,500

A world history which contains invaluable plates of and information concerning the saga of Shabbatai Zevi (1626-1676), certainly one of the most famous (or infamous) of pseudo-Messiahs. According to Scholem, the data provided in our work concerning Shabbetai Zevi was compiled from the testimonies of Sir Paul Rycaut (British consul at Smyrna/Izmir) and an anonymous Christian who happened to be present in Constantinople at the time of the momentous events of 1666, when Zevi went public with his claim to be Messiah.