Travels in England, France, Spain, and the Barbary States, in the Years 1813-14 and 15, Mordecai M. Noah, New York: Kirk and Mercein, 1819

490 pages (8 3/4 x 5 in.; 220 x 125 mm), including frontispiece with portrait of author,  plus 3 unnumbered illustrated plates and an unnumbered foldout plate. Pages: 2, i-viii, 1-431, i-xlvii. Appendices include correspondence of Presidents Jefferson, Adams and Madison. Owner's signature on title. Foxing. Edges tinted yellow. Quarter morocco over marbled boards, worn. 

Singerman 0304; Rosenbach 205.

Mordecai Manuel Noah may well have been the most influential Jew in the United States in the early 19th Century. He was an editor, journalist, playwright, politician, lawyer, judge, port surveyor, military officer, as well as an ardent utopian Zionist.

A portrait of Mordecai Manuel Noah appears as the frontispiece of this work describing his brief but eventful tenure as Consul to the Kingdom of Tunis. According to Noah, he was removed from this position because, in the words of Secretary of State James Monroe, his religion was "an obstacle to the exercise of [his] Consular function." The firing caused outrage among Jews and non-Jews alike. The volume's appendices include correspondence from Presidents Jefferson, Adams, and Madison.