Salant, Samuel. An Open Letter Addressed to Sir Moses Montefiore...on the day of His Arrival in...Jerusalem...Together with a Narrative of a Forty Day Sojourn of the Holy land...By Sir Moses

AUCTION 3 | Tuesday, November 25th, 1997 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Printed Books Duplicates from the Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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Lot 245

(ANGLO-JUDAICA). (MONTEFIORE, SIR MOSES)

Salant, Samuel. An Open Letter Addressed to Sir Moses Montefiore...on the day of His Arrival in...Jerusalem...Together with a Narrative of a Forty Day Sojourn of the Holy land...By Sir Moses

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Text in Hebrew and English. Second edition. Front free-endpaper signed by Joel Snowman ff. 148, 40. Foxed. Original gilt-lettered cloth, backstrip worn. 4to

London: Wertheimer, Lea & Co. 1877

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $500

Boldly inscribed across face of title: “Presented to my Esteemed Friend [indecipherable] Esq. Moses Montefiore.”“ Blank page facing title inscribed by the recipient: “Given to me at East Cliff Lodge, Ramsgate by Sir Moses, Ab 3 1881. When I spent about 2 hours with him. Deeply interesting never to be forgotten.”