Fac-Similes of the Hebrew Manuscripts Obtained at the Jewish Synagogue in K’ae-Fung-Foo

Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: $6,000

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author

(CHINA)

printer

London Missionary’s Society Press

Place

Shanghai

Publication

1851

Description

ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES

summary

Highly unusual wood-blocks on rice paper of sections from most distinctive Torah Scrolls purchased in 1850 from the Jews of Kaifeng Fu. See Diaspora Museum Catalogue, The Jews of Kaifeng (1984) p.32 (illustrated); D.A. Leventhal, Sino-Judaic Studies; A Bibliography (1985) p.39; see also J. Preuss, The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng-Fu (1961)

ff.(76). Opening three leaves remargined, final leaf laid down, dampstained. Modern half-calf. 4to

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