(ANGLO-JUDAICA)

AUCTION 42 | Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 52

(ANGLO-JUDAICA)

Carpenter, William. The Israelites Found in the Anglo-Saxons. The Ten Tribes Supposed to Have Been Lost, Traced from The Land of Their Captivity to Their Occupation of the Isles of the Sea: With an Exhibition of Those Traits of Character and National Characteristics Assigned to Israel in the Books of the Hebrew Prophets pp. 18, (2), 208. Cloth, slightly frayed. 8vo Not in Roth

London: George Kenning 1872

Est: $200 - $250

This curious book is written from the perspective of the Freemasons. The author, William Carpenter, in addition to this highly tendentious history, translated from Latin into English, Michaelis' Calendarium Palestinae (London, 1825), a dissertation on the Hebrew months. (See Roth, Magna Bibliotheca, p. 358, no. 98)