Judaica.- "False Messiah of Izmir".- Coenen (Thomas) Ydele Verwachtinge der Joden Getoont in den Persoon van Sabethai Zevi, text in Dutch and Hebrew, woodcut device to title, two engraved portraits of Sabbatai Zevi and Nathan of Gaza (fractionally trimmed at fore-edge), errata leaf at rear, several later leaves bound-in at end (?replacing another work removed), 19th century ink ownership inscription to front endpaper verso, title reinforced at gutter but working loose, gutter split following title, lower hinge broken, upper weak, later vellum-backed marbled boards, worn, small 8vo, Amsterdam, Joannes Van Den Bergh, 1669. *** Rare: one of only two dozen copies printed of this important contemporary account of the famous false Messiah, Sabbatai Zevi. Thomas Coenen, as Protestant minister to the Dutch merchant community in Smyrna [Izmir], accessed a wealth of detail on Zevi’s life, and sourced multiple documents in their original Hebrew. G. Scholem, who relied on Coenen extensively for his biography of Zevi, referred to the work as "a great rarity." The small printing run was intended exclusively for the officers of the Levant Trading Company; today, there are only four known extant copies, in institutions (BL, NLI, Maastricht, and University of Amsterdam).