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
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[Biblia, ad vetustissima exemplaria nunc recens castigate. Lyon: Gulielmum Rovillium, 1573]. Latin. Missing title page.
Latin bible, with numerous in-text woodcuts depicting various biblical scenes, including the temple and its vessels, the apostles, and more. This Bible edition was edited by the Flemish Catholic scholar Johannes Henten (1499-1566) and proofed based on dozens of Vulgate manuscripts. Heavily influenced by French printer Robert Estienne's Vulgate, this edition was first printed in 1547 in Leuven, Flanders. Introduction by editor Johannes Henten (first printed in the 1547 edition) and by St. Jerome, famed translator of the Vulgate; indices at end.
[7] ff., 1214 pp., [49] ff. Title page missing. Approx. 18 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, some dark, including dampstains. Creases and wear. Worming (mostly to first pages), with minor damage to text. Small tears, some open. First leaf (editor's introduction) torn and trimmed at bottom, restored with paper to margins and verso (affecting text). Several pages trimmed close to text, somewhat affecting headings and marginal references. Notations to endpapers and several other pages (with some ink corrosion). Leather-covered binding, somewhat worn. Gilt designs to spine. Cracks and abrasions to spine; partly detached. Text block split.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
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Historien ende prophetien wt der H. Schrifturen, met fchoone Figueren, by Christoffel van Sichem. [Amsterdam]: P. I. [Pieter Iacobsz] Paets, 1644. Dutch.
Stories of the Old and New Testaments, in addition to short hymns. The book contains roughly 200 beautiful illustrations (in-text woodcuts) by Christoffel van Sichem (1581-1658). These are illustrations of various tales from the Books of Genesis, Esther, Job, and other biblical texts.
538, 537-700, [1] pp. (mispagination). 16 cm. Good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Tears to edges of few leaves, some open, with minor damage to text. Notations in ink (old) on endpapers and in margins of numerous leaves. Small worming holes to some leaves. Leather-covered binding, worn, with abrasions. Tears to spine. Front board loose. Inner boards and flyleaves reinforced with strips of adhesive tape.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
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Libri IV. de Sepulchris Hebraeorum by Johann Nicolai. Leiden: Henricum Teering, 1706. First edition. Latin and some Hebrew.
A study of Jewish burial customs by Johann Nicolai (1665-1708), a philologist and professor of classical studies at Tübingen University, Germany. The book includes eleven engravings depicting Jewish tombstones and graves: nine engraved plates (one folding), and two in-text engravings. Additional in-text illustrations and sketches. Attached to three of the engravings are paper flaps, which, when lifted, expose tomb interiors.
[15], 285, [2] pp. + [9] engraved plates (one folded), 20 cm. Good condition. Minor stains and blemishes. Tear to edge of folded plate (not affecting print). New endpapers and binding. Binding somewhat worn.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
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Jüdisches Ceremoniel [Jewish Ceremonies], by Paul Christian Kirchner. Nuremberg: Peter Conrad Monath, 1724. German. First edition with engravings.
A detailed description of Jewish customs and ceremonies in 18th century Germany, by Paul Christian Kirchner, accompanied by thirty engraved plates (all but title page folding). The engravings depict various Jewish ceremonies, including laying of phylacteries, chalitzah, Sabbath and holidays in the synagogue, and more. The book was first published in 1716 (without engravings). The author, who was born to a Jewish family, converted to Christianity several years before writing it. In his preface, he states his intentions to convince other Jews to follow his example. In 1724, the work was re-edited by Sebastian Jacob Jugendres, who toned down Kirchner's coarse language, as well as his scornful attitude to all things Jewish.
[5] ff., 226 pp., [9] ff. + [30] engraved plates and [2] folding explanatory plates (Erklärung der Kupfer) at end. Approx. 20 cm. Fair-good condition. Many stains (including dark stains) and blemishes. Tears to several pages and plates. Minor worming to some pages. Parchment covered binding, partially detached, with minor blemishes.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
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Kirchliche Verfassung der heutigen Juden, sonderlich derer in Deutschland, by Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz. Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1748. Two parts (out of four) in one volume. German and some Hebrew. First edition.
The first two parts of a work by the German theologian Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz (1717-1797), describing Judaism and Jewish customs, particularly the customs of Ashkenazi Jews. The book includes detailed and objective descriptions of Jewish customs during the author's time and provides a highly important source of information for the history of Jews in the 18th century. With 12 engraved plates by Gottfried Eichler and Georg Paul Nusbiegel (all of the volumes' original engravings, except for the engraved title page), depicting various Jewish customs: Blessing of the Moon, prayers in the synagogue, inauguration of a Torah scroll, Tisha Be'Av, lighting Hanukkah candles, the priestly blessing, and more.
[16], 206, 328, 331-386 pp. + XII engraved plates (engraved title page missing), 22 cm. Good-fair condition. Some stains. Worming, with damage to text and engravings (mostly minor; one wormhole restored with paper). Inked stamps. Handwritten notation in margins of one leaf. Binding with leather spine, worn and damaged.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
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L'ambassade de la Compagnie orientale des Provinces Unies vers l'empereur de la Chine [An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China], by Johannes Nieuhof. Leiden: Jacob de Meurs, 1665. French. Two parts in one volume.
French translation of Johannes Nieuhof's comprehensive work (translated by Jean Le Carpentier) describing the journey of a delegation of the Dutch East India Company to the Emperor of China. The first part deals with the delegation's journey across China and includes information about the Imperial court in Peking (today, Beijing), information about the Chinese Imperial dynasties and more. The second part contains a general description of the Chinese Empire – its history, various customs and rituals followed throughout the Empire, the government, religion, temples, rivers and mountains, fauna and flora. Illustrated with 37 engraved plates: engraved title page, portrait of the French statesman Jean-Baptiste Colbert, a map of China (folding) and 34 double-spread plates featuring mostly Chinese towns. Over 100 additional in-text engravings (illustrations of Chinese towns and villages, botanical and zoological illustrations, illustrations depicting professionals of various social classes, and more). Johannes Nieuhof (1618-1672), a Dutch traveler; published works about his travels in Brazil, China and India. Between 1655 to 1658 he was part of a delegation of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to the court of the Chinese Shunzhi Emperor in Peking, whose objective was to ensure the company's trade rights with the Chinese Empire in the Chinese southern coast. As a member of the delegation, Nieuhof documented the journey in great detail – in writing and by drawing.
[7] ff., 116 pp. [2] ff. (paginated 116-177), 117-290 pp; [1] f., 134 pp. [1] f. + [37] plates, 37 cm. Good condition. Stains. Tears to edges of several leaves, some open (not affecting text); one tear repaired with tape. Worming to spine and some leaves (slightly affecting text and engravings). Leather-covered card binding, worn. Tears to edges of binding and spine (some loss).
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
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The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East Indies – the First Volume – Containing the Author's Voyage from Paris to Ispahan, by John Chardin. London: Moses Pitt, 1686. English. First Edition.
First edition of Sir John Chardin's important travelogue (only one volume was published in 1686; the second and third volumes were published in 1711). The book provides a rich and detailed account of the places and people he encountered on his journey to Persia. Illustrated with a large engraved map of the Black Sea and surrounding countries and 16 engraved-plates (some folding) – views of Tbilisi, Yerevan, Tabriz, Qom and Kashan, monuments, various ritual objects, tombs of kings, and more. Engraved title page at the beginning. Missing engraved portrait of author.
Sir John (Jean) Chardin (1643-1713), Huguenot traveler and Jeweler, born in Paris. Made several adventurous journeys to the East, studying the local cultures. Lived in Persia for several years and later settled in England, escaping the persecution of Huguenots in France. Was appointed court jeweler to King Charles II. Encyclopædia Iranica notes that Chardin "wrote the most detailed foreign account of Persia of his time".
[7] ff, . 264, 331-417 pp., [4] ff., 154 pp., [3] ff. + [18] engraved plates, 30.5 cm. Missing one plate. Good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Minor tears to edges of some leaves. Closed and open tears to some folded plates (with minor damage to engravings), some repaired with paper. Marginal notations in ink on some pages. Card boards with leather spine. Minor tears to spine; minor blemishes to boards. Binding loose.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
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Description de l'Arabie [Description of Arabia] by Carsten Niebuhr. Amsterdam: S.J. Baalde / Utrecht: J. van Schoonhoven & Comp., 1774. French.
French translation of the book Description of Arabia by the German traveler and cartographer Carsten Niebuhr. The book describes in detail Niebuhr's travels in Arabia, including in Yemen, with a Danish research expedition in the years 1761-1767, introducing the conclusions of studies on the local religion and folklore, agriculture, astronomy and more. Illustrated with 26 plates: a genealogical table of the Royal House of Sanaa (folding) and 25 engravings (some folding, three of them partly hand-colored) – maps, including a large, folding map of Yemen, and illustrations of various sites and the local lifestyles and customs (tools and costumes, military training, ancient inscriptions and coins, Masjid al-Haram of Mecca and The Prophet's Mosque of Medina, and more).
Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) a German mathematician, cartographer and traveler. Member of the Danish research expedition to Arabia (in Danish: Den Arabiske Rejse), which was under the patronage of Frederick V of Denmark. He went on research expeditions to the Middle East and Asia and toured Palestine. His studies and maps had great influence, since they were considered precise and reliable, serving as an important source of information on the geography of the Near East. Niebuhr's map of Yemen (the last plate in this book) was particularly significant, being the first map of Yemen ever drawn using modern scientific tools. During their journey in Yemen, Niebuhr and the other members of the expedition visited various Jewish communities – in Jiblah, Mocha, Taiz, Dhamar, Sanaa and elsewhere. This book describes the lifestyle and customs of Yemenite Jews, constituting an interesting source of information for the history of Yemenite Jewry in the second half of the 18th century. See: "The First Scientific Expedition to Southern-Arabia as a Source for the History of the Jews of Yemen" (Hebrew), by Aviva Klein-Franke; in Pe'amim, Studies in Oriental Jewry, no. 18, 1984.
XLII, 372 pp. [7] ff. + XXIV plates (engravings and maps) + [2] folding plates (genealogical table facing p. 170 and a map of Yemen facing p. 372). Last page (list of plates) missing. 27 cm. Good condition. Stains. Stamps to one page. Signatures to title page and front endpapers. Tear to edge of folding map of Yemen (not affecting print). Bookplates to inside front board and one endpaper. New binding.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
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Travels in Mesopotamia, by James Silk Buckingham. London: Henry Colburn, 1827. English. First edition (a Quarto edition was published in the same year).
The book describes the travels of the English traveler James Silk Buckingham in Mesopotamia in the 1820s. He travelled to Aleppo, Urfa (identified with Ur Kaśdim), Mardin, Diyarbakır, Nisibis, Sinjar, Mosul, the ruins of Nineveh, Erbil, Baghdad and elsewhere. Buckingham writes about the archeological sites he visited and describes in detail the lives and customs of the locals. Chapters open with illustrations of towns, landscapes and various sites. The book features two lithographic plates showing the ruins of Babylon, and a large map of Mesopotamia (folding plate).
James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855), a traveler, journalist, publisher of several journals and a member of the British Parliament; born in Cornwell. Published several books about his travels in India, Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor and America, which were a great success. Following his struggle for the freedom of the press in India, and his criticism of the British East India Company and colonialism which he published in The Calcutta Journal, he was deported from India in 1823. In the 1830s he was elected a member of the British Parliament and was one of the supporters of the temperance movement, which objected to the consumption of alcohol. In the preface to this book, Buckingham refers to several travelers who preceded him in their travels to Mesopotamia (p. X): Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela, the German Leonhardt Rauwolff, the Italian Pietro Della Valle, the French Otter and the "celebrated Danish Engineer" Niebuhr. Buckingham claims that their notes on their travels in the area were imprecise and during the century that preceded his travels, "no Traveller of eminence… has had any opportunity of examining the country between the Euphrates and the Tigris".
[III]-XVI, 328, 327-328, 329-571, [1] pp. + [3] plates (one folding map and two lithographic plates), 28 cm. Good condition. Stains. Small tears to edges of folding map. Open tear to edge of one page, not affecting text. Tape for reinforcement to gutter between front endpaper and map. Bookplates to inside front board and front endpaper. Wear and abrasions to binding. Small tears to spine. Front board mostly detached. Pieces of tape for reinforcement to spine.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
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Il Devotissimo viaggio di Gierusalemme [Devout Voyage to Jerusalem], by Giovanni Zvallardo [Jean Zuallart]. Rome: Domenico Basa, 1595. Italian and some Latin. Second edition.
Account of Jean Zuallart's pilgrimage to Palestine in 1586, describing in detail Jerusalem and the holy places. 45 fine engravings, including maps, views and sites in Jerusalem and other towns, depicting the walls of Jerusalem, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Mount of Olives, Rachel's Tomb, Jaffa and more. Two folding engraved plates: plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and plan of the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem.
351 pp., [7] ff., 17 cm. Good condition. Gilt edges. Stains to several pages and folding plates. Minor tears to several pages and folding plates (plates reinforced with paper to verso, partially detached; restored tears to title page and last page). Bottom edge of p. 99 trimmed (not affecting text). Professionally cleaned and restored. New binding.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
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Deliciae Hierosolomytanae & totius Palaestinae, Das ist, Bilgerfahrt in das Heilige Land, by Johan Schwallart [Jean Zuallart]. Cologne: Gerhardum Greuenbruch, 1606. German.
First German edition of the book "Devout Voyage to Jerusalem", by Jean Zuallart. Title page printed in red; ornate initials in the beginning of every part. Jean Zuallart was a Flemish judge and public figure, who travelled to Palestine in 1586, visiting Jaffa, Jerusalem and Bethlehem, and other cities. His book "Devout Voyage to Jerusalem", initially published in Italian (1586), documented the condition of Palestine under Ottoman rule, focusing on the condition of sites described in the scriptures. His meticulous descriptions and precise directions, made the book extremely popular, resulting in the printing of further editions in Italian, French and German, some of them illustrated. See previous item.
[2] ff., 225 pp., 18 cm. Good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Minor blemishes. Large open tear to margin of one leaf (no damage to text). Handwritten inscription on endpaper. Bookplate. Hardcover. Minor blemishes and worming to binding.
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
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Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum et Syriacum, Johannes Cotovicus. Antwerp: Hieronymous Verdussiun Press, 1619. Latin. Two parts in one volume. First edition.
Account of a journey by Johannes Cotovicus (graduated as Doctor of Laws at the Utrecht University) to Jerusalem and Syria (through Crete and Cyprus). Cotovicus, who visited Palestine in 1598, was the first to copy tombstone inscriptions and wall inscriptions from Jerusalem (some were later destroyed). The book contains three engraved plates and more than 50 in-text engravings, including maps, plans and illustrations depicting Jerusalem (view of the city, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Mount of Olives, and more), Jaffa, Rhodes, Cyprus, and other sites.
[16] ff, 518 pp, [9] ff + [3] small engraved plates and [5] folding plates, 24 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, creases and blemishes (mainly to margins and first and last leaves). Some leaves with tears to edges (several open tears; one leaf with a long tear). Leather-covered boards, with abrasions and wear. Tears and losses to spine.
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