BENJAMIN, ISRAEL JOSEPH. Eight Years in Asia and Africa from 1846 to 1855.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,900

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Place

Hanover

Publication

1859

Description

First English edition. At end, folding map of Benjamin's Journey in Asia and Africa.

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Accompanied by Benjamin’s “Eight Years in Asia and Africa:” FIRST GERMAN EDITION. Hannover, 1858. * Bound with: FIRST HEBREW EDITION. Lyck, 1859. In emulation of the medieval Spanish traveler Benjamin of Tudela, the self-styled Benjamin II, Israel Joseph Benjamin, recorded his travels through Egypt, Eretz Israel, Syria, Armenia, Iraq, Kurdistan, Persia, India, and China.

pp. 15, (1 blank), 332, (4). Ex-library, lightly browned and brittle. Contemporary half-calf marbled boards, rebacked. 4to

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