383. Ulrich (Johann Caspar) Sammlung Jüdischer Geschichten...in der Schwiez, engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved plates including 1 folding, engraved head-piece, foxing scattered throughout, heavy very occasionally, original boards, marked and worn, lacking part of spine with remainder becoming detached, upper cover loose, preserved in modern calf-backed marbled drop-back box, 4to, Zurich, 1770.
est. £2000 – £3000
“...the first comprehensive history of the Jews of Switzerland, [Ulrich] exonerates the Jews from complicity in causing the Black Death and similar allegations, and urges the Swiss to treat them as equals” Encyclopædia Judaica , p.1527, 1978.
The three engraved plates present include two of synagogues and another, the folding plate, depicting a funeral scene.
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