Auction 45 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Song of Songs - Ze'ev Raban - Hebrew-French Edition - Numbered and Signed Copy

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Le Cantique de Salomon, enluminé par Ze'ev Raban / Song of Songs, illuminated by Ze'ev Raban, 'Bezalel', Jerusalem: "Shir HaShirim", 1930. Hebrew and French.
26 plates, in color, mounted on the book's leaves, on the right hand side (printed from left to right). Text of Scroll appears on the margins of the illustrations and the translation into French on the left side. Printing of very good quality, on thick paper, with wide margins. The illustrations were printed in Paris by "Artistique Editions de Paris". Copy no. 11 from an edition of 200 copies, signed by Ze'ev Raban (in the colophon).
[34] leaves, 33 cm. Good condition. Stains. Fine original binding, damages to spine.
Posters, "Bezalel", Bibliophilia, Israeli and International Art
Posters, "Bezalel", Bibliophilia, Israeli and International Art