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: $100
Sold for: $325
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Proben aus der Schriftgiesserey der Andreäischen Buchhandlung [Samples of the Andreà bookstore type-foundry]. Publisher not indicated, Frankfurt, 1834. German, Hebrew, Yiddish, French, Latin, Amharic and more.
Sample catalog, showing hundreds of types and decorations. Most of the types are Roman; 23 leaves are dedicated to Hebrew types, including vocalization and cantillation notes; the sample texts are taken from the Bible, the Mishnah, the Jewish prayer and more, alongside Yiddish texts. Wood engraving on front endpaper. The Schriftgiesserey der Andreäischen Buchhandlung type-foundry was founded by Johann Andreà in Frankfurt am Mein in 1667. It was particularly well known for its many Hebrew types and the great selection of borders, tail- and headpieces.
[195] ff., 24.5X15.5 cm. Good-fair overall condition. Minor blemishes, stains and creases to leaves. Blemishes and large tears to the fabric cover of binding. On leaf 135, a Hebrew stamp – "Eretz Israel". In some of the leaves showing Hebrew texts a part of the leaf was cut out.
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Bibliophile Editions, Facsimiles Hebrew Printing
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $150
Sold for: $188
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The Casale Pilgrim: A Sixteenth-Century Illustrated Guide to the Holy Places Reproduced in Facsimile, With Introduction, Translation, and Notes by Cecil Roth. London: Soncino Press, 1929. English.
A high-quality facsimile of a Hebrew manuscript: an illustrated guide to holy places in Palestine and its vicinity, written in the 16th century by an anonymous author of Italian origin. English translation, introduction, and notes by Cecil Roth (1899-1970), British-Jewish historian who specialized in Jewish history and was renowned, among other things, for his collection of Jewish art and Judaica. This is copy no. 76 from a limited edition of 580 copies. Original, fine vellum binding, with gilt design to front. Top edges gilt. Heavy, high-quality paper.
[1], 91 pp., 25.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor worming to leaves and front board.
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Bibliophile Editions, Facsimiles Hebrew Printing
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $150
Sold for: $188
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Elegies for the Ninth of Ab According to the Ashkenazic rite, Translations and Notes. [Oxford]: The Union of Hebrew and Religion Classes for their Oxford Summer School, 1920. English. Two copies formerly owned by the British-Jewish historian Cecil Roth.
Two copies of a book of Elegies for the Ninth of Ab, according to the Ashkenazic rite. The book was published on the event of the summer conference of the "Union of Hebrew and Religion Classes", an organization founded in 1907 with the purpose of arranging and coordinating Hebrew and Judaism classes for students of the "United Synagogue" community in the London area. Roth is named as one of the editors of the book. 1. Copy printed on thick paper, in fine vellum binding. Supplement (6 leaves, stenciled) places in a separate folder. 64 ff. + [2] plates (illustrations), 21.5 cm. Good condition. Minor stains. Supplement: [6] leaves, 33 cm. Good condition. Fold marks. Minor stains. Several minor tears to margins. Tears in center of leaves (where the folding lines cross), with minor damage to text. Book in cardboard slipcase (supplement in matching folder). 2. Copy in half-leather binding; bound with "Die Trauergesänge für Tischah beab" – elegies for the Ninth of Ab according to the Ashkenazic rite, and the Book of Lamentations; Hebrew-German edition (Rödelheim: M. Lehrberger & Co., [early 20th century]). Elegies for the Ninth of Ab: [1] leaf (printed wrapper), 320 pp. + [6] ff. of supplement (missing [2] plates. Die Trauergesänge für Tischah beab: [4], 320 pp. 19 cm. Good condition. Stains. Margins of Elegies for the Ninth of Ab trimmed close to text (minor damage to text and pagination). Signature on one of the endpapers: "Joel Snowman".
Provenance: the estate of Ezra Gorodetsky (received from Cecil Roth).
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Bibliophile Editions, Facsimiles Hebrew Printing
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $200
Sold for: $575
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The Birds Head Haggada of the Bezalel National Art Museum in Jerusalem. Two volumes. Jerusalem: Tarshish Books (printed by Kunstanstalt Max Jaffe, Vienna, Austria), 1965-67.
A color facsimile edition, printed on heavy, high-quality paper, of the illuminated Birds' Head Haggadah manuscript (Germany, ca. 1300). Two volumes: facsimile volume (printed in 1965), and an introductory volume edited by Dr. Moshe Spitzer (printed in 1967; English). The colophon of the facsimile volume reads (in English): "Printed in collotype by Kunstanstalt Max Jaffe in Vienna and published in 600 numbered copies as the first publication of the L. A. Mayer Library for Beth David Solomons by Tarshish Books Jerusalem, 1965." This is copy no. 333 in the series.
The Birds' Head Haggadah is the earliest illuminated German Haggadah known to have survived as a separate codex, independent of the prayer book. It is distinguished by its extraordinarily unique illustrations of human figures with birds' heads – a most peculiar innovation likely devised by the illustrator as a means of abiding by the biblical prohibition against rendering a graven image: "Thou shalt not make for thyself any graven image, nor any manner of likeness…" (Exodus 20:4). Most of the figures are depicted wearing the so-called "Jewish Hat" (German: "Judenhut, ") the conical head covering Jews in Germany were legally required to wear. The illustrations present various biblical scenes alongside depictions of holiday customs and envisionings of the Redemption.
Volume I: [48] ff., [1] colophon leaf. Volume II: 126 pp., [1] f., [31] plates (numbered 129-159), 28 cm. Top edges gilt. Both volumes with vellum spine, gilt. In original matching card slipcases. Good condition. Minor blemishes to bindings and slipcases. Bookplate (Hebrew) to facsimile volume.
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Bibliophile Editions, Facsimiles Hebrew Printing
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