A Journey to Jerusalem, containing, The Travels of Fourteen Englishmen in 1667, to the Holy Land; with memorable places mentioned in Scripture. To which is prefixed, Memorable Remarks upon the Ancient and Modern State of the Jewish Nation. Together With a relation of the great Council of the Jews in the plains of Hungary in 1650 to examine the Scriptures concerning Christ. By S. B. an Englishmen [!] there present. With An account of the wonderful delusion of the Jews by a false Messiah at Smyrna, 1666. Collected by R. Burton.

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Singerman ID: 0077
Year: 1794
Entry: [Crouch, Nathaniel]. A Journey to Jerusalem, containing, The Travels of Fourteen Englishmen in 1667, to the Holy Land; with memorable places mentioned in Scripture. To which is prefixed, Memorable Remarks upon the Ancient and Modern State of the Jewish Nation. Together With a relation of the great Council of the Jews in the plains of Hungary in 1650 to examine the Scriptures concerning Christ. By S. B. an Englishmen [!] there present. With An account of the wonderful delusion of the Jews by a false Messiah at Smyrna, 1666. Collected by R. Burton. Philadelphia: Printed for M. Carey, 1794. 144 p.
Author/Editor: Crouch, Nathaniel
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Holdings: MWA , PHi
Title: A Journey to Jerusalem, containing, The Travels of Fourteen Englishmen in 1667, to the Holy Land; with memorable places mentioned in Scripture. To which is prefixed, Memorable Remarks upon the Ancient and Modern State of the Jewish Nation. Together With a relation of the great Council of the Jews in the plains of Hungary in 1650 to examine the Scriptures concerning Christ. By S. B. an Englishmen [!] there present. With An account of the wonderful delusion of the Jews by a false Messiah at Smyrna, 1666. Collected by R. Burton.
Printer/Publisher: Printed for M. Carey
Language: English
Notes: “R. Burton” (Richard or Richard Burton; other times just R. B.) is the pseudonym of Nathaniel Crouch; see Robert Mayer, "Nathaniel Crouch, Bookseller and Historian: Popular Historiography and Cultural Power in Late Seventeenth-Century England," Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 27 (1993/94), p. 391; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. An alternate identification of R. B. as Robert Boulter is offered by Gershom Scholem, Sabbatai ?evi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676 (Princeton, N.J., c1973), Rosenbach 90, Evans 26833. p. 941, note 57, in relation to the London, 1695, ed., of Two Journeys to Jerusalem … Collected by R. B. … Frequently reissued. Also an edition in German, Eine Reise nach Jerusalem ...