"The Discovery of the Ten Tribes", by Uziel Haga – On the Jews of China – First Edition – Warsaw, 1900 – Bound with ...

"The Discovery of the Ten Tribes", by Uziel Haga – On the Jews of China – First Edition – Warsaw, 1900 – Bound with Two Other Books
"Metziat Aseret Hashvatim im Hanahar Sambatyon Bemedinat Khina" [The Discovery of the Ten Tribes and the Sambatyon River in China], by Uziel Haga. Warsaw: Турша (Tursha), 1900. First edition.
According to the introduction, the author obtained a license directly from U.S. President William McKinley to travel to China with the Americam army in 1901, during the Boxer Rebellion. In China, he was captured by the rebels, tortured and died in prison. The authenticity of the story remains disputed.
The work opens with two letters published in the newspaper "HaMagid" (12th year, 1868, issues 1-3, 8-9, 11): a letter by Rabbi "Abraham Stempel, born in Alsace, France" about "the situation of the Jews in China" and a letter by Aharon Halevi Fink, a resident of Peking, about the Jews of China.
56 pp.
Bound with:
1. "Sefer Yuchasin Hashalem", by historian and astronomer Abraham Zacuto (1452-1515), reviewing Jewish history from the creation until the time of the author. Warsaw: Brothers Levin-Epstein, 1901.
192 pp.
2. "Sefer Shevet Yehuda", by historian and physician Solomon ibn Verga (1460-1554), reviewing sixty-five cases of persecution of Jews throughout history. Piotrków Trybunalski: А. Глинкa (A. Glinka), 1901.
120 pp. (missing two leaves at the end).
Volume: approx. 21.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Brittle paper. Small tears to edges. Open tears and wormholes to several leaves and to binding (small, slightly affecting text). Tears reinforced with strips of paper to two leaves (slightly affecting text). Worn and damaged binding. Detached spine (partially missing).