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Auction 44 · Lot 20

(Congressional Report). Discriminations in Switzerland against Citizens of the United States of the Hebrew Persuasion

Estimate
$400–$600
Hammer price
Not recorded

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

Place

(Washington D.C

Publication

1860)

Description

Uncut and unopened copy

references

Singerman 1691

summary

This publication contains thirty-six government documents pertaining to Swiss discrimination against American Jews. The contents were collected by order of President James Buchanan in compliance with an 1859 House resolution requesting information on such discrimination as a result of a Swiss-American trade agreement. See J. R. Marcus, United States Jewry, II, pp. 290-7
pp. 101. Stained and soiled. Unbound. 8vo
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