Benjamin II (Benjamin, Israel Joseph). Masa’e Yisrael.

AUCTION 57 | Thursday, January 31st, 2013 at 1:00

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Benjamin II (Benjamin, Israel Joseph). Masa’e Yisrael.

<<First Hebrew Edition. With Large Folding Map of the Author’s Travels.>> Translated from the German by David Gordon (Editor of HaMagid and leader of the Chibat Zion Movement) pp. (18), 134, (2). Ex-library, stains in places, some marginal pencil markings, slight paper repair to verso of map. Modern marbled boards. 8vo. Vinograd, Lyck 8 (without noting the map).

Lyck: Hirsch Petzall 1859

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $550

In search of the Lost Ten Tribes, this indefatigable traveler, (who styled himself Benjamin of Tudela II in emulation of the medieval Spanish traveler Benjamin of Tudela), set out for Egypt, visiting the Holy Land, and then journeying on into Syria, Kurdistan, Persia, India and China. Returning to Europe by way of Afghanistan, he also traveled to Algeria, Morocco and Ethiopia. The work contains a wealth of information concerning Jewish settlement world-wide. This copy with the often missing map of the author’s travels.