Auction 93 Part 1 - Manuscripts, Prints and Engravings, Objects and Facsimiles, from the Gross Family Collection, and Private Collections
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Entdecktes Judenthum, oder Gründlicher und wahrhaffter Bericht, welchergestalt die verstockte Juden die Hochheilige Dreyeinigkeit, Gott Vater, Sohn und Heiligen Geist erschrecklicher Weise lästern [Judaism Unmasked – a thorough and true report about the horrifying manner in which the stubborn Jews blaspheme the Holy Trinity…], by Johann Andreas Eisenmenger. [Berlin], 1711 (false imprint on title page for: Königsberg). Second edition. Two parts in one volume. German, Hebrew and some Arabic.
Bookplate of Chaim Brody (signed in print "Struck").
Johann Andreas Eisenmenger (1654–1704), a German orientalist and professor of Semitic languages, is considered a precursor of modern antisemitism. Eisenmenger studied the Bible, the Talmud and rabbinical writings and met with Jewish scholars and rabbis, seeking evidence that Judaism was immoral and promoted hatred of Christians. For some 19 years, he professed to be studying the Jewish religion in order to convert to Judaism; in 1694 he even printed the Hebrew Bible in Frankfurt and was granted the approbation of Rabbi David Gruenhut (who described Eisenmenger in his foreword as an "exalted scholar"). Entdecktes Judenthum – "Judaism Unmasked" – is a credible, seemingly scientific study defaming Judaism and its threats to Christianity, and is considered to this day a classic of modern antisemitism. It was dubbed "an encyclopedia of Jew hatred" by historian Simon Dubnow.
This is the second edition, printed clandestinely in violation of an injunction against the book, seven years after the author's death. In order to avoid prosecution, it was falsely presented as having been printed in Königsberg, which was outside the jurisdiction of Emperor Joseph I.
[20], 1016, [1]; [3], 1111, [1] pages. 20.5 cm. Good condition. Stains, including dark stains, and minor defects. Ownership inscriptions on front endpapers and inside front binding. Minor marginal tears to some leaves. Worming to binding and first leaves, slightly affecting text. Parchment binding, slightly worn and stained.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, NHB.216.
Plünderung der Iudengassen zu Franckfurt am Main den 22 Augusti 1614 / Auszug der Iuden den 23. Augusti [plundering of the Jewish streets in Frankfurt am Main on 22nd August 1614 / Jews leaving on 23rd August]. [Engraving by or after Georg Keller]. [Germany, ca. 1616–1617]. German.
Double engraving, depicting two scenes: to the left the violent raid on the Jewish quarter of Frankfurt am Main on 22nd August 1614, during the course of the uprising of the guilds led by Fettmilch; to the right the Jews leaving Frankfurt on the 23rd August (the Jews are seen wearing the same distinctive round badge on their clothing, some of the figures are seen exclaiming sorrowfully: "O wey" and "leider o leider").
In 1614, Vinzenz Fettmilch, a German baker from Frankfurt am Main, led the uprising of the guilds against his city's institutions. The uprising developed into a raid on the Jewish quarter, in the course of which Jewish homes were looted. As a result, the Jews were forced to leave the city. After the intervention of Emperor Matthias, Fettmilch was imprisoned, and in February 1616 he was executed in one of the city's squares. The Jews of Frankurt am Main were allowed to return to their homes, and the day of their return was declared a holiday called the "Frankfurt Purim" or "Vinz Purim". See item no. 231.
Engraving: 33.5X21.5 cm; leaf: 36.5X24.5 cm. Good condition. Minor tears, professionally restored. Some stains and creases. Paper residue on verso.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, 117.011.020.
Rare.
Executio Rebellium Francofurti Ad Maenum [execution of the rebels in Frankfurt am Main]. Engraving depicting the execution of Vinzenz Fettmilch in Frankfurt am Main. Publisher, place and year not indicated, [Germany, 17th century, ca. 1620].
In 1614, Vinzenz Fettmilch, a German baker from Frankfurt am Main, led the uprising of the guilds against his city's institutions. The uprising developed into a raid on the Jewish quarter, in the course of which Jewish homes were looted. As a result, the Jews were forced to leave the city. After the intervention of Emperor Matthias, Fettmilch was imprisoned, and in February 1616 he was executed in one of the city's squares. The Jews of Frankurt am Main were allowed to return to their homes, and the day of their return was declared a holiday called the "Frankfurt Purim" or "Vinz Purim". See also item no. 230.
35.5X26 cm. Fair–good condition. Open tears to left margin (affecting edge of illustration), professionally restored. Minor stains. Ink stamp on verso. Paper residue on verso.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, 117.011.021.
Des justificirten Juden / Joseph Sueß oppenheimers / Geburt / Leben und Tod [The Execution of the Jew Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, Birth, Life and Death]. Hand–colored engraving, depicting scenes from the life of "the Jew Süß". Publisher, place and year not indicated, [Germany, ca. 1738]. German.
The present engraving was originally part of a larger sheet (broadsheet), comprising a brief biography and satirical stanzas describing the story of Joseph Süßkind Oppenheimer in its lower part ("the Jew Süß", 1698–1738). The broadsheet was presumably part of a group of publications circulated shortly after his execution. See also items 233 and 234.
Compare: USHMM, item 2016.184.242; Würtemberg State Library, Stuttgart, item HBFC 6015.
Joseph Süßkind Oppenheimer (1698–1738) was a court Jew, banker and financial advisor to Duke Karl Alexander of Würtemberg. After the Duke's sudden death, Oppenheimer was charged for a variety of offenses: treason, abusing his position and authority for his personal gain, embezzlement of public funds and licentious lifestyle; he was hanged and his body left in a suspended cage for six years (this cage is featured in most engravings depicting his story).
31X21 cm. Fragment (lacking lower part). Overall good condition. Folding marks. Tears, professionally restored. Some stains. Paper residue on verso.
Exhibition:
• Only on paper: Six Centuries of Judaica from the Gross Family Collection, CD, 2005.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, 117.011.008.
Des Joseph Süssen Lebens–Wamdel, wie auch sein Schellme–voller handel, wird mit dem galgen–Tod bezahlet woran er in den Kefig prahlet / [Die Hinrichtung des Juden Süß Oppenheimer in Stuttgart]. [Execution of the Jew Süß in Stuttgart]. Engraving by an unknown artist. Publisher, place and year not indicated, [Germany, ca. 1738]. German.
Engraving depicting six scenes from the life of Joseph Süßkind Oppenheimer, from the time he served as court Jew until his execution. The center of the leaf is occupied by a large illustration of the gallows and the metal cage Oppenheimer's body was exhibited in. This engraving is presumably part of a group of publications circulated shortly after his execution.
Joseph Süßkind Oppenheimer (1698–1738) was a court Jew, banker and financial advisor to Duke Karl Alexander of Würtemberg. After the Duke's sudden death, Oppenheimer was charged for a variety of offenses: treason, abusing his position and authority for his personal gain, embezzlement of public funds and licentious lifestyle; he was hanged and his body was left in a suspended cage for six years (the cage is featured in most engravings depicting his story). See also items 232 and 234.
Compare: Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, Inventarnummer HB3934.
Engraving: 35.5X27.5 cm; leaf: 36.5X29 cm. Very good condition. Minor creases, minor stains. Paper residue on verso.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, 117.011.018.
Joseph Süß Oppenheimer… Engraving by Ioh. [Iohann?] Gustav Kleckler, hand–colored. Publisher, place and year not indicated. [Germany, ca. 1738]. German.
High–quality, hand–colored engraving, printed on thick paper, portraying the life of Joseph Süßkind Oppenheimer, accompanied with illustrations and verses describing his life story. This engraving is presumably part of a group of publications circulated shortly after his execution.
Joseph Süßkind Oppenheimer (1698–1738) was a court Jew, banker and financial advisor to Duke Karl Alexander of Würtemberg. After the Duke's sudden death, Oppenheimer was charged for a variety of offenses: treason, abusing his position and authority for his personal gain, embezzlement of public funds and licentious lifestyle; he was hanged and his body left in a suspended cage for six years (this cage is featured in most engravings depicting his story). See also items 232 and 233.
Compare: Institut für Stadtgeschichte Frankfurt am Main (ISG FFM) Best. S7Z (Zeitbilder) No. 1614-4.
Engraving: 29.5X21.5 cm; leaf: 32.5X23.5 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Minor tears, professionally restored. Minor creases. Paper residue on verso.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, 117.011.019.
Rare.
Wahre eigentliche Abildung dess unsterblichen Heydens, Joseph Krantz, Von dessen Wandel, Ursachen und neuester Eräugnüs im Norden von Engelland [true depiction of the "Eternal Jew" Joseph Krantz... and his appearance in North England]. Engraving by an unknown artist. Publisher, place and year not indicated, [Germany, ca. 1694–1710]. German.
Single leaf (broadsheet), with an engraving at the top depicting the meeting in North England between the "Eternal Jew" Joseph Krantz and two other gentlemen. The heading is inscribed above the engraving, which is followed by a lengthy text describing the appearance of Joseph Krantz, who allegedly lived 1700 years. The text is based, presumably, on the various versions of the Ahasverus legend – "The Wandering Jew" or "The Eternal Jew" – a Jewish cobbler condemned to eternal wandering after he defamed Christ. First disseminated in the Middle Ages, it earned much popularity and was circulated in many illustrated versions, mostly of antisemitic character.
[1] leaf. 40.5X32.5 cm. Fair–good condition. Tears, slightly affecting text, professionally restored. Folding marks. Some stains. Mounted on non–acidic paper. Tear to central fold.
For further information, see: George K. Anderson (1947), Joseph Krantz, Twin of Ahasverus, The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 22:3, pp. 188–201.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, 117.011.048.
Rare.
Entdeckter Jüdischer Baldober, oder Sachsen–Coburgische acta criminalia, [by Paul Nicolaus Einert]. Coburg: Georg Otto, 1758. German.
"Jewish Bandleader Captured", book by Paul Nicolaus Einert (published anonymously). The book Includes three engraved plates, two of which show handcuffed Jewish criminals: Mendel Carbe and Hoyum Moyses.
The author Einert headed the investigation leading to the arrest of a band of robbers, most of whose members were Jews, captured in the 1730s in Coburg, Bavaria (Germany).
The bandleader ("Baldober") was the Jew Mendel Garbe or Carben, following whose arrest many other band members were captured, almost all of them Jewish. The band was responsible for a long series of robberies in various parts of the country. After the investigation was completed and the band members convicted, Einert published this book with the aim of "exposing many heretofore unknown crimes and robberies carried out by Jews". Einert used the affair to disseminate a book of anti–Semitic accusations based on two assumptions: first, that solidarity exists between all Jews, whether criminal or not, making the entire Jewish people accomplices to crime; second, that the motivation of Jewish criminals to commit crimes is not just greed and the desire for profit, but also the desire to harm Christians and Christianity.
[7] leaves, 600 pages + [3] engraved plates. Approx. 21.5 cm. Good condition. Stains, including minor ink stains. Title–page and frontispiece attached with non–acidic tape. Pen inscription inside front board. Card binding, with parchment corners and spine. Stains, wear and abrasions to binding. Open tear to bottom of spine. Pen inscription on spine. Remnants of card spine pasted on spine.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, NHB.169.
Il Devotissimo viaggio di Gerusalemme [the Faithful Voyage to Jerusalem], by Jean Zuallart. Rome: F. Zanetti e Gia. Ruffinelli, 1587. Italian.
Account of the Flemish traveler Jean Zuallart's pilgrimage to Palestine, describing in detail Jerusalem and the holy places.
Zuallart's pilgrimage starte in Venice, and passed through Crete, Cyprus, Jaffa, Bethlehem and Jerusalem, and took some 6 months to complete, during which he created numerous illustrations and sketches of the places and sites he visited. These were printed in the present book, and used in many later works which followed. The book was translated to German and French, and for many years was used as a guide book of sorts, for pilgrims in the Holy Land.
This first edition was printed in Italy, a year after the journey. It contains over 50 fine engravings, including maps, views and sites in Jerusalem and other towns, depictions of the walls of Jerusalem, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Mount of Olives, Rachel's Tomb, Jaffa and more, as well as a frontispiece and the author's portrait.
[10] leaves, 402 pages. 20.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Some minor marginal worming. Marginal tears and open tears to few pages, mostly restored. Inscriptions (old). Vellum binding, blemished and worn.
Exhibition:
• Voir Jérusalem. Pèlerins, conquérants, voyageurs, Mairie du 5eme arrondissement, edited by Béatrice Philippe Paris, 1997.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, NHB.370.
Petri Bellonii Cenomani Plurimarum singularium & memorabilium rerum in Graecia, Asia, Aegypto, India, Arabia [Petrus Belonius… Observations of Many Singularities and Memorable Items in Greece, Asia, Egypt, India, Arabia…]. Antwerp: C. Plantini, 1589. Latin.
Latin translation of the work known as "Observations", by the French naturalist Pierre Belon, first published in French in 1553. The work describes Belon's ethnographic, botanical and zoological studies, which he conducted during his travels through Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, and Judea, between 1546 and 1549. Many in–text woodcuts, illustrate Belon's study observations and results. Printed and bound with another work by Belon, pertaining to the chicory plant.
Pierre Belon (1517–1564), French scientist and traveler, leading naturalist in his times, father of comparative anatomy. Belon was one of the first Europeans to study the flora and fauna of the Near East, and made great contributions to the development of the sciences of botany, ornithology (study of birds) and ichthyology (study of fish). Belon was one of the first researchers to incorporate illustrations in his scientific works.
[8], 495; [87] pages (slightly mispaginated). Approx. 17.5 cm. Good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Minor tears to a few leaves at beginning of volume. Many inscriptions to leaves and inside binding (in Latin characters). Several detached leaves. Fine leather binding, worn and rubbed. Abrasions to binding edges. Minor tears to spine.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, NHB. 372.
Totius Terrae Sanctae urbiumque et quicquid in eis memoria dignum actum gestumve fuit, secundum Bibliacos libros ac divum Hyeronimum. Paris: Gullielmum de Bossozel, 1540. Latin.
Martin de Brion's work on the cities and sites of the Holy Land. Only printed edition, with a depiction of Jerusalem on the title page (woodcut). The sites are organized alphabetically. The geographical position of each site is given, together with a significant biblical event which occurred in that place, and the verses where it is mentioned in the Holy Scriptures.
The present work first appeared in French, in form of an illustrated and decorated manuscript. There are three extant copies of the decorated manuscript, one dedicated to Henry VIII King of England, and one to Francis I King of France (see: British Library, Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, Royal MS 20 A IV / French Library, Ms. Fr. 5638). This is a copy of the only printed edition of the work, published in Latin shortly after the manuscript was completed.
[58] leaves. Approx. 22 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor tears. Paper repairs to verso of title page and margins of one leaf (not over text). Bookplate. Parchment binding, slightly worn.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, NHB. 153.
Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum et Syriacum, by Johannes Cotovicus. Antwerp: Hieronymous Verdussiun, 1619. Latin. Two parts in one volume. First edition.
Account of the journey by Johannes Cotovicus (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 Sepulcher, Mount of Olives, and more), Jaffa, Rhodes, Cyprus, and other sites. Incomplete copy, lacking four folding text plates.
[17] leaves, 518 pages, [9] leaves + [3] engraved plates and [1] folding text plate (of five). Good condition. Some creases and stains. Minor worming. Several detached leaves with marginal tears. Tear to folding plate, repaired with tape. Parchment binding, slightly damaged.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, NHB. 378.