Entdeckter Jüdischer Baldober, oder Sachsen–Coburgische acta criminalia, [by Paul Nicolaus Einert]. Coburg: Georg Otto, 1758. German.
"Jewish Bandleader Captured", book by Paul Nicolaus Einert (published anonymously). The book Includes three engraved plates, two of which show handcuffed Jewish criminals: Mendel Carbe and Hoyum Moyses.
The author Einert headed the investigation leading to the arrest of a band of robbers, most of whose members were Jews, captured in the 1730s in Coburg, Bavaria (Germany).

The bandleader ("Baldober") was the Jew Mendel Garbe or Carben, following whose arrest many other band members were captured, almost all of them Jewish. The band was responsible for a long series of robberies in various parts of the country. After the investigation was completed and the band members convicted, Einert published this book with the aim of "exposing many heretofore unknown crimes and robberies carried out by Jews". Einert used the affair to disseminate a book of anti–Semitic accusations based on two assumptions: first, that solidarity exists between all Jews, whether criminal or not, making the entire Jewish people accomplices to crime; second, that the motivation of Jewish criminals to commit crimes is not just greed and the desire for profit, but also the desire to harm Christians and Christianity.

[7] leaves, 600 pages + [3] engraved plates. Approx. 21.5 cm. Good condition. Stains, including minor ink stains. Title–page and frontispiece attached with non–acidic tape. Pen inscription inside front board. Card binding, with parchment corners and spine. Stains, wear and abrasions to binding. Open tear to bottom of spine. Pen inscription on spine. Remnants of card spine pasted on spine. 

Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, NHB.169.