Subject: Inscriptions

Manuscript copy of the inscription on the 1728 tombstone of Moses Levy, one of the earliest Jewish settlers in New York City. The manuscript, created circa 1860-1870, replicates the original inscription's lettering and form. The copy is a beautifully executed work, suggesting a learned creator.

This is the ninth edition of Donald G. Mitchell's *Reveries of a Bachelor; or, A Book of the Heart*, published in 1851 by Baker & Scribner. This particular copy belonged to Israel Cohen (1820-1875) of Baltimore, who inscribed and dated it in 1851. In 1882, his daughter Eleanor Septima Cohen (1858-1937) added her bookplate, which incorporates Hebrew lettering and the Kohanim symbol, and inscribed the book as a gift to Dr. Julius Friedenwald. Dr. Friedenwald received the book after 1890.