Leon Horowitz. Romania Ve’America. <<* And>> : Tuv Artzoth HaBrith.

AUCTION 66 | Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art

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Lot 176
(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Leon Horowitz. Romania Ve’America. <<* And>> : Tuv Artzoth HaBrith.

<<FIRST EDITION>> . Two parts. Final pages with commercial ads by passenger shipping lines crossing the Atlantic. ff. (3), pp. iv, 52, 64, (2), 65-66. Ex-library (“Esra,” Cracow), browned. Contemporary boards, rubbed. 8vo.

Berlin: Friedlander’sche Buchdrukerei 1874

Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $500
Encouraging emigration to the United States, with a description of life in America. Dedication in English to the Hon. B. F. Peicotto, Consul General of the United States in Bucharest, stating that the book portrays “the condition of our people in the Danubian principalities. It contains… a precise description of the social industrial affairs in the United States, the geography… political institutions, also an impartial guide for the voyage and travel thither.”