Benjamin of Tudela. Masaoth shel Rabi Benyamin.

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

(BAGHDAD).

printer

(B. M. Mizrahi)

Place

Baghdad

Publication

1866

references

Yaari, Baghdad 2.

summary

RARE LITHOGRAPHIC PUBLICATION of this celebrated travelogue. The first four Hebrew imprints printed in Iraq’s capital city were simple lithographic publications. Yaari records only a singe copy of each of these Baghdadi books located in the celebrated Sassoon Collection.

pp. 80. Stained, slight marginal repair, trace wormed. Modern calf. Sm. 8vo.

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