IN HEBREW. RARE monograph on Joseph Saul Abdallah (1849-1906), an eminent scholar of medieval poetry and an authority on history of the Jews of China, who was a merchant and money changer by profession, and wrote for the Hebrew newspapers Havazzelet and Ha-Levanon. His profound knowledge of the Hebrew Bible and poetry, and Arabic literature, enabled him to penetrate into many subtleties of Spanish Hebrew poetry and to make many contributions to the questions of influence of Arabic poetry on Hebrew poetry of Spain, as well as translating Arabic stanzas written in the Spanish meter. 270x195mm. 57 pages. Hardcover with dust-jacket. Gilt lettering on spine. Jacket yellowing and age-stained. Jacket edges tattered and partly missing. Cover stained. Cover corners rubbed. Spine edges slightly bumped and peeling. Inner cover and whitepages browning and age-stained, Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare monograph on a fascinating Jewish personality is in good condition.