Report of Sir Moses Montefiore Bart. to the London Committee of Deputies of the British Jews on the Subject of his Mission to Rome.

Estimate: $700–$900
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(ANGLO-JUDAICA). MONTEFIORE, SIR MOSES

Place

(London)

Publication

13th July 1859

references

Not located in either Roth or Goldschmidt-Lehmann, Montefiore: A Bibliography

summary

Concerns Sir Moses’ failed mission to the Vatican seeking the return of six-year-old Edgar Mortara, secretly baptised and then kidnapped by his Catholic nanny, from his Jewish parents in Bologna. See L. Loewe (ed.) The Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore (1983) pp.82-103.

8pp Mimeographed Secretarial(?) Report, folded, unbound, 4to

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