"An Open Letter Addressed to Sir Moses Montefiore" – London, 1877 – Copy Signed by Montefiore

An open letter addressed to Sir Moses Montefiore… on the day of his arrival in the holy city of Jerusalem… by the Rev. Meyer Auerbach… and the Rev. Samuel Salant… Together with a narrative of a forty days' sojourn in the Holy Land. London: Wertheimer, Lea & Co., 1877. Hebrew and English. Second edition.
The book contains impressions of Moses Montefiore's visit to Palestine in 1875 and the text of a long letter sent to him by rabbis Samuel Salant and Meyer Auerbach prior to his arrival in Jerusalem (the letter is printed in the Hebrew original and in English translation. The impressions are printed in English only).
On the English title page is a handwritten inscription: "To Mr. Marcus N. Adler, with Sir Moses Montefiore's best wishes", the words "Moses Montefiore's" were handwritten by Montefiore.
Presumably, the book was inscribed to Marcus Nathan Adler (1837-1911), the son of Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire.
A photograph of Montefiore by John Crow Twyman is mounted on the inside front Hebrew binding, with Adler's bookplate beneath it (both are covered with a tissue guard). The Montefiore coat of arms is printed on the inner front English cover.
148, 40 pp, 24 cm. Gilt-lettered binding. Gilt edges. Good condition. A few stains. Stamps on endpapers. Minor blemishes to edges of binding and spine.