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(AMERICAN JUDAICA). - Yissachar Ber Gordon. Shevilei Olam Chadash [“Geography of the New World…The Americas and Australia.”]. First edition. pp. 146. Ex-library, few light stains. Contemporary boards. 8vo. S. Orgelbrand, Warsaw: 1870. The first extensive practical survey of the Americas in Hebrew.      A detailed geography describing topography, climate, borders, populations and industries of all the major cities of the Americas: Canada, United States, Mexico, West Indies, South America (with an appendix on Australia). Discusses history as well as places of public interest including libraries, prayer-houses, theaters, universities, planetariums and well-known residents.