J. de Rie. Wonderlyke Leevens-Loop van Sabatai-Zevi, Valsche Messias der Jooden.

AUCTION 64 | Thursday, March 19th, 2015 at 1:00

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Lot 175

(SHABTHAI TZVI).

J. de Rie. Wonderlyke Leevens-Loop van Sabatai-Zevi, Valsche Messias der Jooden.

<<FIRST EDITION. >> Text in Dutch. pp. (20), 122. Needs rebinding. 8vo.

Leiden: Cryn Visser 1739

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

Exceptionally rare. According to WorldCat, only two copies extant worldwide (both in Holland). The listing of a German translation is erroneous, for no such work exists. Gershom Scholem notes this work in his Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah (1975) p.191, footnote 233: “The portraits… in de Rie’s Wonderlyke Levens-Loop van Sabataï-Zevi (Leyden 1739) are purely imaginary.” However upon consulting both Dutch copies, neither have such a frontispiece.