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Bidding Information
Lot #    20778
Auction End Date    5/6/2008 12:12:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    The Saint Charles
Author    [First Ed. - Signed Copy] Walter Max Kraus, ed.
City    Camden, New Jersey
Publisher    The Gibbten Company
Publication Date    1935
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 161 pp. illus. maps, port. folded chart, 250:176 mm., usual light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original wrappers. Rare - WorldCat lists only 1 library that holds this title.
          
Paragraph 1    This copy was autographed by the editor.
          
Detailed
Description		    This volume is labelled Vol.1, No. 1 of a journal which was named to commemorate the ship which brought the first group of Jewish settlers to America in September, 1564. No further issues were published.

It is a journal dedicated to the history and genealogy of the ancestors, founders and descendants of those Jewish families which settled in America prior to 1789. Articles include: "New York's oldest existing Jewish cemetery", "The will of Abraham de Lucena of New York", "Finding ancestors through Inquisitonal Archives", et al.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
Other:    Periodical
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica