Unpartheyische Gedancken Uber Das so genante Wunder-Kind, In dem Dorffe Kehrberg nahe bey Kyritz, In einem Gesprach Seinen Landes-Leuten mitgetheilet.
Berlin, J.A. Rudiger c. 1734.
4to (189 x 153 mm.). 27p. With an added double-page engraved plate (backed).
Modern gray pastepaper boards.
Only Edition of this anonymous dialog debunking the famous Kehrberg’s Wonder-Child. The seventh son of a Lutheran blacksmith, the boy purportedly possessed miraculous powers and healed the sick by breathing on them, touching them or having them drink water in which he had washed his hands. Considered suspect by authorities, the boy and his family were imprisoned. The boy died in custody, and the parents were released after a trial.
This copy is extra-illustrated with an engraving of the boy healing a Salzburg man. No copies recorded outside of Northern Europe. In good condition (title finger-soiled, print chipped around the edges and backed).
¶Serner, Das Kehrbergische Wunderkind passim; VD18 10992383; see Drugulin’s Historischer Bilderatlas II: 4170 (another version of the print).
Price: $2,850.00