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

(SHABTHAI TZVI).

Cryn Visser

Leiden

1739

FIRST EDITION. Text in Dutch.

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.