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Auction 50 · Lot 240

MONTEFIORE, SIR MOSES

Estimate
$400–$600
Hammer price
$800

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

Place

Ramsgate

Publication

1880

Description

(English philanthropist, 1784-1885). Secretarial Hebrew Letter, on personal letterhead, boldly signed, once in Hebrew characters and once in Latin characters. To the prolific scholar Jacob Reifmann (1818-1895), concerning receipt of his book on R. Saadia Gaon's Emunoth VeDei'oth. Sir Moses states [actually, Louis Loewe] he will place the book in the Ohel Moshe VeYehudith Library "to enlighten the eyes of all who come there to study.”
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