Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
Including: sketches by Ze'ev Raban and Bezalel items, hildren's books, avant-garde books, rare ladino periodicals, and more
A Book from the Private Library of Leah Goldberg, bearing her Own Drawing ("Ex Libris")
Opening: $100
Sold for: $275
Including buyer's premium
Les amours de Psyché et de Cupidon ["The Love of Cupid and Psyche"] by Apuleius. Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot, 1880 (date on the cover: 1881). French. Copy with a large bookplate drawing by Leah Goldberg.
French translation of the story "Cupid and Psyche, " a chapter from the novel "The Golden Ass" by Roman author Lucius Apuleius. Accompanied by 32 plates of prints after paintings by Raphael, signed in the plate "C. Normand" (Charles Pierre Joseph Normand?).
The present copy has been re-bound, with new endpapers (with the original cover mounted onto the new one). Ink drawing by poet Leah Goldberg on front endpaper; on the right, a woman (self-portrait of Goldberg?) is seen holding a sign reading "Lea Goldberg." The words "Ex Libris" appear at the top of the illustration.
[37] pp. + 32 plates, approx. 32 cm. Fair condition. Stains and an open tear to margins of endpaper with Goldberg's drawing, and strips of paper glued to same endpaper (none of this affecting drawing). Minor tears to edges of leaves. Large open tears to original back cover. Inked stamps on back endpaper.
This edition of the book is not listed in OCLC.
Provenance: The Tuvya Ruebner Collection.
French translation of the story "Cupid and Psyche, " a chapter from the novel "The Golden Ass" by Roman author Lucius Apuleius. Accompanied by 32 plates of prints after paintings by Raphael, signed in the plate "C. Normand" (Charles Pierre Joseph Normand?).
The present copy has been re-bound, with new endpapers (with the original cover mounted onto the new one). Ink drawing by poet Leah Goldberg on front endpaper; on the right, a woman (self-portrait of Goldberg?) is seen holding a sign reading "Lea Goldberg." The words "Ex Libris" appear at the top of the illustration.
[37] pp. + 32 plates, approx. 32 cm. Fair condition. Stains and an open tear to margins of endpaper with Goldberg's drawing, and strips of paper glued to same endpaper (none of this affecting drawing). Minor tears to edges of leaves. Large open tears to original back cover. Inked stamps on back endpaper.
This edition of the book is not listed in OCLC.
Provenance: The Tuvya Ruebner Collection.
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