EDREHI, M(OSES). History of the Capital of Asia and the Turks

AUCTION 27 | Tuesday, February 08th, 2005 at 1:00

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Lot 18

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

EDREHI, M(OSES). History of the Capital of Asia and the Turks

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Three volumes bound in one. WITH (as issued): An Historical Account of the Ten Tribes Settled Beyond the River Sambatyon in the East. Frontispiece portrait of the Author (see Rubens 754) and his son, Isaac (see Rubens 753a) with an additional five illustrated plates pp.vi, 140, 147, 148, vi, 159. Brownd and foxed. Two leaves with faults. Original boards, spine gilt, rubbed. 4to Singeman 1527

Boson: for the Author’s Son 5618 (1858)

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $450

Moses Edrehi was a somewhat idiosyncratic individual, a wandering preacher originally from Morocco, who spent some years in Europe, especially England, and finally settled in Eretz Israel, where he apparently assumed the title of British Consul at Jerusalem. This edition of his works was prepared for an American readership by the Author’s son, Isaac Edrehi. In the Note to the Reader, Isaac recounts and bemoans his assorted financial and personal difficulties during the years in which he attempted to raise the necessary capital to publish the present work