BENJAMIN BEN JONAH OF TUDELA. 1130-1173.

Travels of Rabbi Benjamin, Son of Jonah, of Tudela: Through Europe, Asia, and Africa, From the Ancient Kingdom of Navarre, to the Frontiers of China. Faithfully Translated from the original Hebrew ... by the Rev. B. Gerrans. London: Printed for the Translator; and sold by Messrs. Robson et al, 1783.

Travels of Rabbi Benjamin, Son of Jonah, of Tudela: Through Europe, Asia, and Africa, From the Ancient Kingdom of Navarre, to the Frontiers of China. Faithfully Translated from the original Hebrew ... by the Rev. B. Gerrans. London: Printed for the Translator; and sold by Messrs. Robson et al, 1783.
8vo (190 x 115 mm). xiii, [1], 171, [1] pp. Nineteenth-century three-quarters brown calf, front cover detached, text toned, manuscript biographical note on flyleaf.

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. The original Hebrew text, recording the author's 12th-century journey from Spain to Baghdad and back, was first published in Constantinople in 1543. "The earliest important work of its kind in Hebrew literature" (Sarton II, 414).