Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
Including: Items from the Estate of Ruth Dayan, Old Master Works, Israeli Art and Numismatics
December 21, 2021
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $250
Sold for: $1,250
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Two official documents drawn up by Italian attorneys and a court ruling issued by the Vatican Auditor Camerae court, pertaining to Italian Jews. Late 17th century to 19th century. Latin and Italian.
1. Sacra Visita, Romana Alimentorum pro Universitate Haebreorum Contra Quoscumque, Iuris D. Advocati Caranza. Signed in the plate: Scipio Caranza. Rome, 1698. Latin. [4] pp., 26.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Some worming and tears to edges, one repaired with paper. New binding with vellum spine (gilt design to spine). 2. Sacrae Congregationi S. Officij Romana restitutionis infantium pro Alexandro Ambron, & Leone Liuoli Iudaeis Tutoribus Testamentarijs filiorum Ventura Caricioli. Signed in print: Jacobus Balsarini. [Rome]: Mainardi Press, 1737. Latin. Legal document pertaining to the baptizing of Jewish children against their father's will. [6] ff., 26.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Closed and open tears to edges, some repaired with paper. Notation to title page. New binding with vellum spine (gilt design to spine). 3. Court ruling issued by the court of the Auditor Camerae (one of the courts of the Catholic Church, which had jurisdiction over economic and financial issues), referring to the Jewish community and the Jewish ghetto [Rome, 1843], Italian. [1] f., 26.5 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Small tears to edges.
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Europe – Regulatios for Jewish Communities, Legal Documents, Patents of Nobility, Manuscripts, Photographs
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $250
Sold for: $475
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Manuscript on vellum – privilege awarded to two Jewish Jewelers. Modena, 1762. Italian.
Privilege awarded to the Jewish jewelers Abramo and Benedetto, father and son of the Vita Levi family, by Maria Teresa Francesca Cybo-Malaspina (1725-1790), Duchess of Massa and Carrara, Princess of Modena (should not be mistaken for Archduchess Maria Theresa, ruler of Austria at the time). Signed by hand: "Maria Teresa". The distinguished Vita Levi family, who counted among the wealthiest Jewish families in Modena, were jewelers and merchants, and trained numerous master jewelers who started as apprentices in their workshops; family members were members of the Guild of the Goldsmiths throughout the eighteenth century. Abram Vita Levi (who might be the same Abramo mentioned here) directed the ducal mint since 1724. See: Federica Francesconi, Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. p. 170. With the Massa ducal arms, incorporating the coats of arms of the Cybo-Malaspina and the d'Este families (combined after the marriage of Maria Teresa to Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena).
39.5X53 cm. Good condition. Stains, creases and minor wear. Several pinholes. Traces of seal at bottom.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $500
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190 edicts and regulations pertaining to the Jews in the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the 19th century. Dutch.
• Verordeningen Voor Het Israelitisch Kerkgenootschap Binnen Het Koningrijk Der Nederlanden [Regulations for the Jewish Community in the Kingdom of the Netherlands]. Three Volumes. The Hague: Algemeene Lands Drukkerij, 1822, 1830, 1842. Parts 1-3. Three volumes, including 150 regulations – comprising all the regulations legislated since 1814, when the organization of the "Nederlands-Israëlitisch Kerkgenootschap" [Dutch Israelite Religious Community] was established, until 1840. The regulations are numbered I-CL. Including a title page and a list of regulations. Original paper wrappers (thick, blue paper). • 40 regulations from the years 1841-1868 – separate booklets (marked "fourth part" on the upper-left corner).
Number of pages varies, 22-23 cm. Good condition. Stains and creases (mostly minor). Minor marginal tears to a few leaves. Handwritten notations to several leaves. Wrappers slightly worn; Open tears to spines.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $400
Sold for: $688
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Der Vollständige Landadvokat. Two parts (separate title page for each part). Brünn, 5559 [1799]. German in Hebrew characters.
A handbook of legal advice related to petitions, contracts, taxes, debts, powers of attorney, wills and inheritances, and more. An addendum at the end of Part II features texts of Jewish marital contracts and agreements ("tenaim rishonim" and "tenaim achronim" contracts, ketubah and tosefet ketubah, chalitzah agreement and "shtar chatzi zachar"). This handbook was first printed in German, in several editions published in Brünn in the 1790s. The present edition – a transcription of the German text into Hebrew letters – was published for the benefit of German Jews.
• Bound with : "Melechet Machshevet", a textbook on mathematics [by Rabbi Moses Zerah Eidlitz]. Zhovkva, 1837. Hebrew.
"Melechet Machshevet": 4, 4, 13-44 ff. Der Vollständige Landadvokat: 150 pp. 18.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including large dampstains. Creases and wear. Worming, affecting text. Edges trimmed unevenly; some pages trimmed close to text. Handwritten notation on last leaf. Missing front board. Back board detached. Open tears to spine.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
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Two patents of nobility, signed by two emperors of the Holy Roman Empire – Emperor Charles VI and his grandson, Emperor Joseph II. Vienna, 1724 / Leitmeritz (Litoměřice), 1784. German.
Manuscripts, calligraphic text on vellum. Decorative initials and other embellishments, some hand-colored. Both feature a full-page, hand-painted coat of arms, gilt.
1. Patent of nobility signed by Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. Vienna, July 1, 1724. Granting noble status to Johann Maximilian Pelican and all his descendants and permitting them to use a coat of arms. The coat of arms is hand-painted on p. [11]; its components are described in detail. Signature of Emperor Charles VI on p. [18]; other signatures and notations on p. [18] and on the last page. [20] pp., 29.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor wear. Some minor tears to edges. Bound with a string. 2. Patent of nobility signed by Holy Roman Emperor. Leitmeritz (Litoměřice), September 23, 1784. Granting noble status to Johann Jacob Brunner and all his descendants and permitting them to use a coat of arms. The coat of arms is hand-painted on p. [11]; its components are described in detail. The patent of nobility was granted to Brunner for his service as court councilor of the Diocese of Passau (Bistum Passau), Bavaria. Signature of Emperor Joseph II on p. [17]; other signatures and notations on p. [17] and on the last page. [18] pp., 34.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor blemishes. Bound in red velvet, with two laces (and remnants of a second pair of laces). Binding slightly worn.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $400
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Unique scrapbook, containing hundreds of paper items collected by the banker, philanthropist and Austrian consul in Monaco, Adolf Springer (1846-1896), and his wife Ernestine (1852-1828): admission tickets to exhibitions and theater productions, advertisements for various entertainment events, menus from formal hotel dinners, letters and telegrams from members of the high society, and other items. Vienna, Berlin, and elsewhere, late 19th Century. German (several items in other languages).
A scrapbook with over 200 paper items and ephemera (pasted to the leaves), documenting the life of the Austro-Hungarian high society. Embossed on the front cover: "Allerlei" (in German: Miscellaneous). Items include: • Admission ticket to the 1878 Paris World Fair. • Invitation to the opening event of the Viennese "Internationale Ausstellung für Musik- und Theaterwesen" (International Exhibition for Music and Theater), 1892. • Ticket to a performance in the Viennese Ringtheater (burnt down in 1881) • Autograph letter, signed by the Italian war minister Cesare Bonelli (Rome, 1881), addressed to Adolf Springer. • Two cards with humoristic depictions of Otto von Bismarck (apparently related to a pact signed with the Foreign minister of the Austrian Empire, Bernhard von Rechberg, in 1864). • Small poster advertising a revue – "the Twins from Nanking and their Wife, the Bearded Wonder Woman" (undated). • Membership cards of various organizations and clubs, letters and telegrams (some written on visiting cards), newspaper clippings, colorful scraps, and more.
Approx. 220 paper items, most are pasted to the album leaves (some detached). Size and condition vary. Overall good-fair condition. Many stains. Fold lines, closed and open tears to some items. Album: approx. 33 cm. Fair-poor condition. Leaves partly detached, some with large open tears. Binding worn, lacking spine.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $150
Sold for: $2,375
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Manuscript notebook by Avraham Kagan. [Druskininkai (today in Lithuania)], 1902-1908. Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian.
The manuscript includes poems, short stories and other texts in Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian, dated and signed in Cyrillic characters – "A. Kagan" or "Abram Mendelev Kagan". Among the works: • "To the Hebrew Language". • Parody on the Passover Haggadah – "Haggadah said by those in a sad plight on a cold winter night" (Hebrew), with the "A.B.K.D [Avraham Bezalel Kagan Druskininkai] commentary". • Cycle of prose and poetry – "The Story of Flour", "The Story of the Apple", "The Story of the Cherry", "The Story of the Table", "The Story of the Bird Escaping the Cage", "The Story of the Broken Silver Timepiece", "The Story of the Potato", "The Story of Honey [The Flowers]". • Additional poems and short stories of a judgmental and often sentimental character, dealing with the town of Druskininkai, texts for the Jewish Festivals, and more. To the best of our knowledge, this manuscript remains unpublished.
189 written pp. (paginated by hand; mispagination), 21.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains and ink stains. Tears and minor creases to margins (slightly affecting text on several leaves). Worn cover. New binding.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $200
Sold for: $1,188
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Twenty-five photographs of students and teachers in Hebrew educational institutions in Lithuania and Belarus (and elsewhere?). 1920s-1930s. Including: • Picture of the third class of "The Hebrew Gymnasium in Marijampolė" (1924). • Class photograph, Tarbut school in Kybartai (1938). • Three class pictures, Tarbut school in Nesvizh (1932-1936). • Photographs of Moshe Kwint, teacher in the Hebrew gymnasium of Vilkomir (in the company of students, during trips, as a young student). • Photograph of the winner of the masquerade of HaShomer Hatza'ir in Nesvizh. • And more.
Two of the photographs depict a group on board SS Polonia, which carried immigrants from the port of Gdynia, Poland to Palestine (dated by hand to January 1938, one photograph with the stamp of the ship photographer Boleslaw Furmanek).
25 photographs. Mostly with postcard backs, 14X9 cm; some smaller. Condition varies. Good-fair overall condition. Stains. creases, small tears and abrasions, mostly to edges. Dedicated or captioned by hand on verso (Hebrew and Yiddish).
Enclosed: several items related to teacher Moshe Kwint: a postcard sent to him from Palanga, 1928; letter of recommendation indicating that he is a member of the "United Socialist Zionist Party" in Lithuania (with the inked stamp of the "Yiddishe Bildungs-Gezelshaft oifen Nomen fun Dr. N. Sirkin" organization); invitation to a Hebrew gymnasium student conference in Kovno (1953).
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