Curieuser Nachrichten aus dem Reich der Beschnittenen, erste Unterredung, zwischen Sabathai Sevi, einem in dem vorigen Seculo in den Morgenländern höchst-berüchtigt gewesenen jüdis. Ertzbetrüger, und dem fameusen Würtenbergischen Avanturier, Jud .Joseph Süss Oppenheimer. Frankfurt and Leipzig: [No publisher indicated], 1737-8. German.
A book in three parts (out of four printed parts; with three title pages) containing a dialogue taking place in the kingdom of the dead between the false messiah Sabbatai Zevi and the Jew Süss [Joseph Susskind] Oppenheimer, a wealthy banker and financial adviser to the Duke of Württemberg, who was executed on false charges.
Includes a folded woodcut (at the end of the third part) depicting the cage in which Oppenheimer was placed in the town square and publicly displayed prior to his execution. The book's first volume was published in 1737, before Oppenheimer was executed. The next parts were published after his execution in February 1738.
Bound together with an additional book containing a dialogue that took place in the kingdom of the dead between Karl Alexander, the Duke of Württemberg and Oppenheimer's patron, and his uncle and predecessor in the role of Duke of Württemberg, Eberhard Ludwig.
80; 95; 96; 70 pp. + [1] folded plate, 20 cm. Fair condition. Worming to final two parts. Restored tears to woodcut in two places, with losses. Open tear to first title page, restored, with slight damage to text. Ancient binding, no spine.