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1850 · réf. 013028 — London: Richard Bentley 1850. Hardcover. Fair. Ex-library. Publisher's original binding in crimson cloth with gilt lettering on spine and blind stamped boards. Heads of spines are chipped. Library label and bookplate on front pastedown of Vol. I. Each volume has pinhole library stamps on their title page plus one additional leaf. No pockets. Four engraved plates with tissue guards including the frontispieces. Fourteen in-text woodcut illustrations. Several examples of Jewish music. 8vo. pp. xv 1 438; xvi 1437. 8.75 x 5.3 inches. Placed in a removable clear archival sleeve with a small loose slip of acid-free color-matched paper to mask the call number. A Pilgrimage to the Land of My Fathers is a record of travels and observations in a series of letters written between 1847 and 1849. Volume I covers London France Italy Malta Carthage and Tunis. Volume II: North African ports Constantinople Rhodes Lebanon Syria Jerusalem and the Holy Land. Margoliouth describes the character and relations of the Jewish communities in many of these places in Europe and the Levant including the Karaite Jews and Jewish converts to Christianity notes British and Christian missions documents contemporary and historical events meets with common and prominent individuals provides many reports on the varied relations between Jews Christians and Muslims and discusses issues of Biblical cultural and historical relevance. A wealth of detail. Moses Margoliouth 1820-1881 was a Polish-born British scholar a Jewish convert to Christianity and an Anglican minister. He studied at Trinity College Dublin and at the Hebrew College London. He was the author of The History of the Jews in Great Britain 1851. From the collection of John Wilson c. 1826-1900 pioneer merchant and book collector of Portland Oregon. The eight-thousand volume collection considered one of the finest on the west coast was bequeathed to the Portland public library in 1900. Richard Bentley hardcover