Auction 90
Fine Judaica Including: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Arts
Jul 21, 2020
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USA
Brooklyn Navy Yard: Building 77 Suite 1108 Brooklyn NY, 11205
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Israel Joseph Benjamin. Eight Years in Asia and Africa from 1846 to 1855.
English with Hebrew text. Numerous illustrations of Holy Land sites. At conclusion, foldout map of author’s travels.
pp. xxii, 376, (2). Gutter split, browned and dampstained. Contemporary boards, worn, backstrip laid down. 4to.
Hanover: Wm. Riemschneider 1863
An invaluable source of information concerning the Jews of North Africa, the Near and Far East, especially India and China. On the penultimate page we find a “List of Subscribers in Bombay,” namely various members of the affluent Sassoon clan. The self-styled “Benjamin II” (after the medieval globe-trotter Benjamin of Tudela), was a native of Foltischeny, Moldavia. He died in London in abject poverty while making preparations for a second journey to the Orient. See EJ, Vol. IV, cols. 526-7.
An invaluable source of information concerning the Jews of North Africa, the Near and Far East, especially India and China. On the penultimate page we find a “List of Subscribers in Bombay,” namely various members of the affluent Sassoon clan. The self-styled “Benjamin II” (after the medieval globe-trotter Benjamin of Tudela), was a native of Foltischeny, Moldavia. He died in London in abject poverty while making preparations for a second journey to the Orient. See EJ, Vol. IV, cols. 526-7.
