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Bidding Information
Lot #    7889
Auction End Date    8/17/2004 4:14:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Narrative of a Mission of Inquiry to the Jews
Title (Hebrew)    from The Church of Scotland in 1839
Author    [A. A. Bonar & R. M. McCheyne]
City    Edinburgh
Publisher    William Whyte
Publication Date    1843
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   First English edition. XX, 555 pp., 2 fold maps., 2 full-page engrv. plates, a full-page plan and 46 text-illusts. light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original quarter calf and cloth boards, corners tipped in, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description
   While the stated purpose of the mission was the Christian conversion of the Jews, not very successful, it nevertheless describes the social and econmic condition of the Jews in the early 19th century.

f.t.: Narrative of a Mission of Inquiry to the Jews from The Church of Scotland in 1839

          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
England:    Checked
  
Subject
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Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica