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JUDAICA - FALSE JEW A False Jew: or, a Wonderfull Discovery of a Scot, Baptized at London for a Christian, Circumcised at Rome to Act a Jew, Rebaptized at Hexham for a Believer, but Found at Newcastle to Be a Cheat, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, Newcastle, William London, 1653
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JUDAICA - FALSE JEW
A False Jew: or, a Wonderfull Discovery of a Scot, Baptized at London for a Christian, Circumcised at Rome to Act a Jew, Rebaptized at Hexham for a Believer, but Found at Newcastle to Be a Cheat, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, 2 titles within single rule border, all leaves on guards, final leaf repaired with partial loss of page numeral, nineteenth century calf, worn [W1266], small 4to, Newcastle, William London, 1653
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SCARCE FIRST EDITION of a pamphlet describing the tale of Roman Catholic agent Thomas Ramsay, who passed himself off as an Italian Jew (named Joseph Ben Israel) and - in order to sow confusion amongst the Baptist congregations of Newcastle - pretended to "convert" to Christianity. "The sensational and serpentine case made ideal journalistic diet, and a work published in Newcastle in 1653 neatly captured the multiple identities of Ramsay as Anglo-Scot, Catholic-Jew and bogus Baptist" (ODNB).
