Bidspirit auction | BECK, JOHANNES JODOCUS. Tractatus de

BECK, JOHANNES JODOCUS. Tractatus de Juribus Judaeorum / Von Recht der Juden. Worinnen von denen Gesetzen, denen sie unterworffen, deren Heyrathen, Contracten, Wucher, Testamenten…gehandelt wird. Title in red and black with historiated initials, engraved frontispiece (see below). pp. (12), 599. Trace foxed. Modern boards. Thick 4to. Nürnberg, Johann Georg Lochners , 1741. “On the Rights of the Jews. In which the Laws to which they are Subject, their Marriages, Contracts, Usury, Wills, etc., are Discussed.”  Engraved frontispiece with four illustrated vignettes depicting: Jewish Marriage Ceremony; Deathbed scene; Financial dealings; and Judicial death-sentence (see Rubens, Jewish Iconography 1394i-1394iv).