Apr 27, 2017 - Sale 2444

Sale 2444 - Lot 186

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(JUDAICA.) Proceedings of Meetings held. . . at New York and London to Express Sympathy with the Oppressed Jews in Russia. 50 pages. 4to, original printed wrappers, moderate soiling; small perforated Library of Congress stamp on title page and surplus duplicate stamp on rear wrapper. New York: Industrial School of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, [1882]

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These meetings were held to protest the pogroms which swept Russia in 1881 in the wake of the assassination of Tsar Alexander II. Among the many attendees at the New York meeting on 1 February 1882 was ex-president Ulysses S. Grant. Singerman 3090.