Isaac Mayer Wise. The First of the Maccabees.

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

printer

Bloch & Co., Office of The Israelite

Place

Cincinnati

Publication

1860

Description

First edition. Opening blank and title-page signed by Abraham Ephraim Frankland.

references

Singerman 1697.

summary

Rare edition that Singerman records in only one copy. A later undated edition with a subtitle “A Historical Novel” is more common. Abraham Ephraim Frankland (1831-95) was a prominent British-born merchant and civic-leader based in Memphis, Tennessee. A confederate sympathizer during the Civil War, he was appointed by Isaac M. Wise as director of the International Order of B’nai Brith for the Southern States.

pp. 180. Foxed. Modern calf. 8vo.

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