Lady Judith Montefiore. Private Journal of a Visit to Egypt and Palestine, by way of Italy and the Mediterranean.

AUCTION 53 | Thursday, December 08th, 2011 at 1:00

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Lot 37

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Lady Judith Montefiore. Private Journal of a Visit to Egypt and Palestine, by way of Italy and the Mediterranean.

FIRST EDITION. Signed by former owner, the English collector par-excellence, Jack V. Lunzer. pp. (4), 322. Later half-roan, extremeties rubbed. 8vo Roth, Magna A10 no. 176

London: “Not Published” 1836

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $600

Wife of the eminent Sir Moses Montefiore, Lady Judith has a most elegant style to her writing, viz: "After an hour's ride we came to Rachel's Tomb… On entering I was deeply impressed with a feeling of awe and respect, standing as I thus did, in the sepulchre of a mother in Israel… My feelings of gratitude were not a little increased by a knowledge of the circumstances, that only six European females are said to have visited Palestine in the course of a century…"(p. 206)