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
"The Hanukkah Lamp, " by Mordechai Narkiss – Publications of the Bezalel National Museum – Jerusalem, 1939
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Sold for: $300
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The Hanukkah Lamp, by Mordechai Narkiss, with drawings by Meir Gur Aryeh. From the publications of the Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem. Jerusalem: Bney Bezalel Publishing Co., 1939. Hebrew, with English summary.
Comprehensive work by the art historian and curator Mordechai Narkiss, detailing – from both a historical and artistic perspective – the history and development of the Hanukkah lamp, in all its multifarious forms and variations. The book is dedicated in print to the memory of the founder of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, Prof. Boris Schatz. Copy from an edition of 400 copies.
18, 102, [2] pp., LXIV pp. (plates; photographs), n pp., 31.5 cm. Good condition. Stains, mostly minor. Several tears mended with adhesive tape (not affecting text). Several leaves and plates partly detached. Strips of adhesive tape on inner margins of several leaves. Notation in pen on back endpaper. Binding with gilt impression. Minor blemishes to edges of binding.
Comprehensive work by the art historian and curator Mordechai Narkiss, detailing – from both a historical and artistic perspective – the history and development of the Hanukkah lamp, in all its multifarious forms and variations. The book is dedicated in print to the memory of the founder of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, Prof. Boris Schatz. Copy from an edition of 400 copies.
18, 102, [2] pp., LXIV pp. (plates; photographs), n pp., 31.5 cm. Good condition. Stains, mostly minor. Several tears mended with adhesive tape (not affecting text). Several leaves and plates partly detached. Strips of adhesive tape on inner margins of several leaves. Notation in pen on back endpaper. Binding with gilt impression. Minor blemishes to edges of binding.
Bezalel Artists – Books, Judaica and Original Art – Including Sketches by Ze'ev Raban and other Items from the Estate of Shlomo Kedmi
Bezalel Artists – Books, Judaica and Original Art – Including Sketches by Ze'ev Raban and other Items from the Estate of Shlomo Kedmi