Rottenberg, Abraham Mordechai. Masa ba-Erev ba-Ya'ar ["Night Travel in the Forest": novella in form of rhymed sonnet]

AUCTION 37 | Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 144

(MONTEFIORE, MOSES)

Rottenberg, Abraham Mordechai. Masa ba-Erev ba-Ya'ar ["Night Travel in the Forest": novella in form of rhymed sonnet]

Hebrew in square characters with vowel points. Subscriber list (2 pp.) in German pp.16, 48, (2). Trace foxed. aeg. Contemporary gilt cloth. 8vo Friedberg M-3693

Ofen (Budapest): Universitäts Buchdruckerei 1864

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $350

Contains lengthy homage and rhymed panegyric to Sir Moses Montefiore, recently returned from his mission to the Sultan of Morocco, to intercede on behalf of the oppressed Jews of that country. See D. Littman, "Mission to Morocco (1863-1864)" in: S. and V.D. Lipman, The Century of Moses Montefiore (1985), pp. 171-229