(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Journey to Jerusalem - or in its earlier English incarnation, Two Journeys to Jerusalem - went through several London editions at the end of the seventeenth century; ours is the second American edition. Rosenbach (90, 109) writes that R. Burton is actually the pseudonym of Nathaniel Crouch. This is difficult to maintain. In the London 1683 and 1692 editions, Nathaniel Crouch is the printer. The title of the 1695 edition reads "Collected by R.B." (see G. Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi, p. 941, no. 57). In reality, these are the initials of Robert Boulter, listed as editor in the London 1692 edition (see Kestenbaum & Company Sale 2, Lot 346). It seems that a century later confusion reigned on the other side of the Atlantic; somehow Robert Boulter was transmogrified into "R. Burton," first in Philadelphia, and once again in Hartford