Roblik, Eliam Liborium. Jüdische Augen-Gläser [Jewish Eyeglasses]

AUCTION 39 | Thursday, April 03rd, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Roblik, Eliam Liborium. Jüdische Augen-Gläser [Jewish Eyeglasses]

FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound in one. German. Two titles in red and black. Three curious engraved plates. Printed in double columns. Historiated initial. Headpieces and tailpieces Pt. I: pp. (18),1-283, 280-513, (1 blank). Lacking pp. 491-494. Pt. II: pp. (4), 307, (1 blank), 427, (1). Ex-library. Foxed and occasionally stained. Contemporary calf, abraded. Thick folio Freimann, p. 413

Brünn / König-Gratz ob der Elbe: Maria Barb. Gwobodin Wittib-Anton Johann Prentz / Wentzl Johann Tibelli 1741-43

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $650

Roblik, a Moravian cleric who eventually forsook the priesthood, attempted to dissuade the Jews from their perceived false beliefs. He attacked Jewish doctrine rather than the Jews themselves, whom he earnestly believed would see the truth of Christian belief if only their rabbis and their Talmud would not hide the truth from their eyes. The work is hence symbolically titled “Jewish Eyeglasses,” and a conspicuously large pair of eyeglasses serves as its frontispiece