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RARE FACSIMILE EDITION WITH HEBREW TRANSLATION of a manuscript of a travel diary to Holy Land (incomplete) by Moise Vita Cafsuti, an 18th-century Florentine Jew who was renowned in Tuscany for his expertise in gemstone valuation. The family of the author, now known as Cassuto, was a well-known family in Florence and among its descendants are many famous people, among them Moshe David (Umberto) Cassuto. Contains an introduction in Italian and Hebrew. 230x170mm. IV+100+VIII pages. Softcover with dust-jacket. Jacket front side rubbed and slightly peeling. Jacket upper edge slightly wrinkled. Single small wormhole on jacket front bottom corner near spine - NO damage to text. Wormholes on rear side of dust-jacket, rear cover and whitepage - NO damage to text. Cover and inner cover age-stained. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare bilingual edition of a fascinating 18th-century travel diary to the Holy Land, of interest to any serious scholar of the history of Italian Jewry and the Land of Israel, is otherwise in good condition.