Der Baseler Congress

AUCTION 1 | Thursday, November 14th, 1996 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 283
(ZIONISM). HERZL, THEODOR.

Der Baseler Congress

FIRST EDITION. The historian Bruno Kirschner’s copy, with his book-plate Original printed wrappers, detached, silver tape along small portion of margin of lower cover, 8vo

Vienna: Verlag Der Welt 1897

Est: $200 - $300
PRICE REALIZED $700
Herzl’s account of the first Zionist Congress (August, 1896) whose historic mission, as adopted in the Basle Program, was “the establishment of a National Home for the Jewish People in Eretz Israel.”