Les Imposteurs Insignes. Complete in two volumes

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

ROCOLES, JEAN-BAPTISTE DE

printer

Jean van Vlaenderen

Place

Brussels

Publication

1728

Description

Engraved additional title in Volume I: 22 portraits, including one of Shabbetai Tzvi (cf. Rubens 2234). Engraved fronticepiece to Vol. II

summary

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

Contemporary mottled calf gilt, spines repaired. Sm. 8vo

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