EDREHI, M(OSES). History of the Capital of Asia and the Turks. * With (as issued): An Historical Account of the Ten Tribes Settled Beyond the River Sambatyon in the East.

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Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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EDREHI, M(OSES). History of the Capital of Asia and the Turks. * With (as issued): An Historical Account of the Ten Tribes Settled Beyond the River Sambatyon in the East.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Three volumes bound in one. Frontispiece portrait of the author (see Rubens, Jewish Iconography no. 754) and his son, Isaac (see Rubens 753a) with an additional five illustrated plates pp.vi, 140, 147, 148, vi, 159. Browned and foxed. Two leaves with faults. Original boards, spine gilt, rather rubbed. 4to Singeman 1527

Boston: for the Author’s Son 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