ROCOLES, JEAN-BAPTISTE DE. Les Imposteurs Insignes

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $550

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author

(MESSIANISM)

printer

Jean van Vlaenderen

Place

Brussels

Publication

1728

Description

French. Complete in two volumes. Engraved additional title in Volume I: 22 portraits, including one of Shabbetai Tzvi (Vol. II, between pp. 248-9). (Cf. Rubens 2234). Engraved frontispiece to Vol. II

summary

Enlarged edition of a work on infamous “imposters,” chiefly claimants to various thrones or high political offices. The book contains accounts of Bar Kochba, Moses of Candia (Crete), David Alroy, Shabbetai Tzvi and others, concluding with a negative discussion of Jewish messianism in general.

Vol. I: pp. (12), 374. Vol. II: pp. (6), 320. Ex-library. Uniform contemporary marbled boards. Sm. 8vo

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