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MOSES MONTEFIORE | two letters signed, 1872-74
Description
MONTEFIORE, SIR MOSESTWO LETTERS:i) letter signed, to E.A. Davidson, with autograph revisions,thanking him for his gift of books to Judith Lady Montefiore College ("...I feel confident that they must afford very valuable aids to the training of the rising generation..."), 2 pages, 8vo,embossed mourning stationery, East Cliff Lodge, Ramsgate,18 February 1872ii) autograph letter signed, to two Rabbis in Jerusalem, including Taakov Yehuda Leib Levin, on a donation from the Synagogue in Königsberg, in Hebrew, 1 page, 4to, headed stationery, numbered 7521, 31 March 1874Sir Moses Haim Montefiore (1784-1885) made a fortune on the stock exchange, and gave his later life to the support of Jewish communal and religious affairs in Britain and around the world - in the process becoming a prominent and popular public figure in Victorian Britain.
Auction
Books and Manuscripts: A Summer Miscellany
From July 28, 2020 to Aug. 4, 2020 in London
U Ngwe Gaing | BURMESE FRUITS
Description
Signed
Oil on canvas
65.5 by 91 cm; 25 3/4 by 35 3/4 in.
Auction
Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art
From Oct. 6, 2019 to Oct. 6, 2019 in Hong Kong
