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Singerman ID#supp3036

A Treasury of Knowledge, and Cyclopædia of History, Science and Art; Containing A Great Amount of Interesting and Useful Information – Astronomy, Travels in the Holy Land, Discovery of America, Early Settlements of the Country, Biographies of Eminent Men, Incidents of Travel, Discoveries in Science, Curiosities of Art, and a Choice Selection of Miscellanies, etc. Edited by Robert Sears. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings.

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Singerman ID#supp3036

Sears, Robert, ed. A Treasury of Knowledge, and Cyclopædia of History, Science and Art; Containing A Great Amount of Interesting and Useful Information – Astronomy, Travels in the Holy Land, Discovery of America, Early Settlements of the Country, Biographies of Eminent Men, Incidents of Travel, Discoveries in Science, Curiosities of Art, and a Choice Selection of Miscellanies, etc. Edited by Robert Sears. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings. New York: Robert Sears; J. A. Redfield; Boston: F. S. Saxton, M DCCC XLIX [c1849]. 512 p.

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See, for example, "Literature of the Jews" (p. 246) and "The House of Rothschild" (pp. 388-91). Within the section devoted to Holy Land travel is a view, "Jews’ Place of Wailing–Temple Wall," at p. [61]. A perfect copy has a frontispiece. Frequently reissued.