Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 227

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
EDREHI, MOSES BEN ISAAC. An Historical Account of the Ten Tribes, settled beyond the River Sambatyon in the East. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author; folding engraved plan of the Temple prophesied in Ezekiel 40-46. xx, 290 pages. 8vo, 221x136 mm, original cloth with paper lettering piece, spine faded, with horizontal crack, front joint cracked and reinforced; offsetting from portrait onto title, plan heavily foxed and offset, scattered foxing and stains elsewhere. Bookplate of William Berrian; perforated stamp of Meadville Theological Seminary on title and one text leaf, ink accession note on leaf after title. London: Printed for the Author, and sold by Griffiths . . . and Henry Washbourne, 1836

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first edition in english of the author's 1818 Ma'aseh Nissim. Edrehi (circa 1774-circa 1842) was an eccentric Moroccan Jewish scholar. EJ VI, 380 ("somewhat preposterous work"); Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, page 335.