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

(ANTISEMITICA).

Maria Barb. Gwobodin Wittib-Anton Johann Prentz / Wentzl Johann Tibelli

Brünn / König-Gratz ob der Elbe

1741-43

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

Freimann, p. 413

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