Online Auction 010 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
- (-) Remove book filter book
- and (228) Apply and filter
- print (209) Apply print filter
- art (161) Apply art filter
- bibliophil (161) Apply bibliophil filter
- books, (161) Apply books, filter
- german (161) Apply german filter
- literatur (161) Apply literatur filter
- bezalel (48) Apply bezalel filter
- object (48) Apply object filter
- prints, (48) Apply prints, filter
- children (19) Apply children filter
- game (19) Apply game filter
Displaying 145 - 156 of 228
Online Auction 010 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
August 29, 2017
Opening: $50
Sold for: $250
Including buyer's premium
Two bibliophile books, by Kasimir Edschmid, with lithographs in color by artist Erna Pinner (1890-1987). Darmstadt: Sie Dachstube Darmstadt, 1923-1925.
1. Zur Naturgeschichte der Antilopen [Natural History of Antelopes], 1923. Eight lithographs in text. Copy no. 99 of an edition of one hundred copies; signed by the author and by the artist.
[1], 13, [2] pp, 22 cm. Good condition. Some damage to binding.
2. Bullis und Pekingesen [Bulldogs and Pekinese], 1925. Ten lithographs in text (some in color). Copy no. 34 out of one hundred copies; signed by the author and by the artist.
[1], 17, [2] pp, 26 cm. Good condition. Worming. Some damage to cover.
1. Zur Naturgeschichte der Antilopen [Natural History of Antelopes], 1923. Eight lithographs in text. Copy no. 99 of an edition of one hundred copies; signed by the author and by the artist.
[1], 13, [2] pp, 22 cm. Good condition. Some damage to binding.
2. Bullis und Pekingesen [Bulldogs and Pekinese], 1925. Ten lithographs in text (some in color). Copy no. 34 out of one hundred copies; signed by the author and by the artist.
[1], 17, [2] pp, 26 cm. Good condition. Worming. Some damage to cover.
Category
Art – Prints and books, German Literature and Bibliophile Books
Catalogue
Online Auction 010 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
August 29, 2017
Opening: $100
Sold for: $213
Including buyer's premium
E. A. Poe, The Raven, Written and Illustrated by Rafaello Busoni. Berlin: Rogall Hand-Press-Laboratory, 1924. English.
The Gothic poem "The Raven", by the American poet and author Edgar Allan Poe, with illustrations by Rafaello Busoni. The whole book – the text (inscribed in fine calligraphic script by Busoni) and the illustrations – is printed in lithographic printing.
Numbered copy 3/50, signed by the artist.
[9] leaves, 33.5 cm. Good condition. Foxing. Leather binding with gilt embossing.
The Gothic poem "The Raven", by the American poet and author Edgar Allan Poe, with illustrations by Rafaello Busoni. The whole book – the text (inscribed in fine calligraphic script by Busoni) and the illustrations – is printed in lithographic printing.
Numbered copy 3/50, signed by the artist.
[9] leaves, 33.5 cm. Good condition. Foxing. Leather binding with gilt embossing.
Category
Art – Prints and books, German Literature and Bibliophile Books
Catalogue
Online Auction 010 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
August 29, 2017
Opening: $100
Sold for: $200
Including buyer's premium
Song of Songs, Illustrations by Raffaelo Busoni. Berlin: Hans Striem, 1923.
Song of Songs, written in fine calligraphic script and illustrated by Rafaello Busoni. The text and illustrations are all by Busoni. Numbered copy 88/200, signed by Busoni.
[16] leaves, 33 cm. Lacking original folder. Fair condition. Stains. Wear to margins of leaves.
Song of Songs, written in fine calligraphic script and illustrated by Rafaello Busoni. The text and illustrations are all by Busoni. Numbered copy 88/200, signed by Busoni.
[16] leaves, 33 cm. Lacking original folder. Fair condition. Stains. Wear to margins of leaves.
Category
Art – Prints and books, German Literature and Bibliophile Books
Catalogue
Online Auction 010 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
August 29, 2017
Opening: $100
Sold for: $163
Including buyer's premium
1. Autograph letter from Max Brod to Walter Zadek when the latter served as editor of Berliner Tageblatt. September 7 [ca. 1930]. German. In this letter Brod mentions encloseing a commentary to "Meine Lieder" for publication in the paper, asks Zadek to inform him when he intends to print in the paper his note about "Reubeni" ["the recently surfaced Jewish Bedouin tribe"] and mentions in addition that he has an idea for a subject for Zadek's column "People who Give Us a Hard Time".
[1] leaf, folded into two (two inscribed pages), 21X14 cm. Good condition. Folding marks, foxing, filing holes.
2. Rëubeni, Fürst der Juden, ein Renaissance-Roman, by Max Brod. Munich: Kurt Wolff, [1925]. German. First edition.
"Reuveni, Prince of the Jews", historical novel by Max Brod. Numbered copy 198/200. Signed by Brod.
[3] leaves, 523, [1] pp, 18.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Pencil inscriptions. Stains at margins of leaves. Binding covered with marbled paper. Leather spine and corners.
Enclosed: Portrait of Max Brod.
[1] leaf, folded into two (two inscribed pages), 21X14 cm. Good condition. Folding marks, foxing, filing holes.
2. Rëubeni, Fürst der Juden, ein Renaissance-Roman, by Max Brod. Munich: Kurt Wolff, [1925]. German. First edition.
"Reuveni, Prince of the Jews", historical novel by Max Brod. Numbered copy 198/200. Signed by Brod.
[3] leaves, 523, [1] pp, 18.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Pencil inscriptions. Stains at margins of leaves. Binding covered with marbled paper. Leather spine and corners.
Enclosed: Portrait of Max Brod.
Category
Art – Prints and books, German Literature and Bibliophile Books
Catalogue
Online Auction 010 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
August 29, 2017
Opening: $100
Sold for: $200
Including buyer's premium
Der babylonische Talmud in Auswahl, übertragen und erläutert von Jakob Fromer. Berlin: Brandusschen Verlagsbuchhandlung, [1924]. German.
German translation of selected passages from the Babylonian Talmud, accompanied by illustrations in color by Joseph Budko (title page, inner title pages, initials and on the binding). Copy no. 52 out of 530 copies. Fine binding with gilt embossing. Gilt edges.
[4], 169, [3] pp, 36 cm. Good condition. Minute worming holes to some of the leaves. Foxing. Slipcase.
German translation of selected passages from the Babylonian Talmud, accompanied by illustrations in color by Joseph Budko (title page, inner title pages, initials and on the binding). Copy no. 52 out of 530 copies. Fine binding with gilt embossing. Gilt edges.
[4], 169, [3] pp, 36 cm. Good condition. Minute worming holes to some of the leaves. Foxing. Slipcase.
Category
Art – Prints and books, German Literature and Bibliophile Books
Catalogue
Online Auction 010 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
August 29, 2017
Opening: $200
Sold for: $400
Including buyer's premium
Die heiligen Bücher des Alten Bundes übertragen durch Lazarus Goldschmidt. Berlin: Erich Reiss, 1921-1925. German.
Bibliophile edition of the bible, translated into German by Lazarus Goldschmidt – three volumes. The volumes include only the Pentateuch and Prophets. No other volumes were published.
Printed in 300 copies. Decorations and initial letters are colored by hand. Each book contained in the original slipcase.
201; 175; 192 pp, 32.5 cm. Good condition. Tears to spine. One volume lacks spine.
Bibliophile edition of the bible, translated into German by Lazarus Goldschmidt – three volumes. The volumes include only the Pentateuch and Prophets. No other volumes were published.
Printed in 300 copies. Decorations and initial letters are colored by hand. Each book contained in the original slipcase.
201; 175; 192 pp, 32.5 cm. Good condition. Tears to spine. One volume lacks spine.
Category
Art – Prints and books, German Literature and Bibliophile Books
Catalogue
Online Auction 010 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
August 29, 2017
Opening: $50
Sold for: $400
Including buyer's premium
Judith, Tragödie in drei Akten, Jean Giraudoux. Stuttgart: Manus Presse, 1972.
Judith, tragedy in three acts, portfolio with 12 lithographs in color by the artists Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst. Numbered copy, 143/500, signed by both artists.
49, [1] pp, 41 cm. Good condition. Cardboard folder. Stains to binding and to folder.
Judith, tragedy in three acts, portfolio with 12 lithographs in color by the artists Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst. Numbered copy, 143/500, signed by both artists.
49, [1] pp, 41 cm. Good condition. Cardboard folder. Stains to binding and to folder.
Category
Art – Prints and books, German Literature and Bibliophile Books
Catalogue
Online Auction 010 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
August 29, 2017
Opening: $50
Sold for: $175
Including buyer's premium
Three poetry books in German printed in bibliophile editions:
* Die trunkene Mette durch vier deutsche Jahrhunderte gelesen von Ernst Schulte Strathaus und Karl Wolfskehl, bestellt von d. Gesellsch. Leipzig: W. Drugulin, 1909. German.
Anthology of wine and drunkenness poems, among them poems by Goethe and Schiller. Numbered copy 151/200, signed by Karl Wolfskehl. Handwritten dedication by Ernst Schulte-Strathaus on the endpaper.
Enclosed is a booklet: Grüße und wünsche zum achtzigsten geburtstag dankbar zu erwidern [wishes and congratulations for the eightieth birthday], with a portrait photograph of Ernst Schulte Strathaus and his signature.
76, [1] pp, 27.5 cm. Good condition. Torn spine, partly detached. Defects to binding.
* Die Weisheit des Dschuang-Dse in deutschen Lehrgedichten, Vincenz Hundhausen. Leipzig: Pekinger, 1926. German.
A work in two parts: Leben und Menschen and Leben und Sinn. Poems composed by Vincenz Hundhausen (1878-1955), a German professor in Peking University in China, who occasionally wrote poetry.
Each part was printed in a separate booklet in black and red ink. The booklets are thread-bound and covered with blue silk. Both booklets are inserted in a cloth-covered cardboard slipcase.
Part one: 66 pp, part two: [2], 67-126 pp, 25 cm. Good condition. Defects to case.
* Die Gedichte aus der Tröstung der Philosophie, Konrad Weiss. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, [1956]. German.
A poetry book by Konrad Weiss with epilogue by the philosopher Josef Pieper. Numbered copy 195/1000.
130, [2] pp, 24 cm. Good condition. Cardboard slipcase.
* Die trunkene Mette durch vier deutsche Jahrhunderte gelesen von Ernst Schulte Strathaus und Karl Wolfskehl, bestellt von d. Gesellsch. Leipzig: W. Drugulin, 1909. German.
Anthology of wine and drunkenness poems, among them poems by Goethe and Schiller. Numbered copy 151/200, signed by Karl Wolfskehl. Handwritten dedication by Ernst Schulte-Strathaus on the endpaper.
Enclosed is a booklet: Grüße und wünsche zum achtzigsten geburtstag dankbar zu erwidern [wishes and congratulations for the eightieth birthday], with a portrait photograph of Ernst Schulte Strathaus and his signature.
76, [1] pp, 27.5 cm. Good condition. Torn spine, partly detached. Defects to binding.
* Die Weisheit des Dschuang-Dse in deutschen Lehrgedichten, Vincenz Hundhausen. Leipzig: Pekinger, 1926. German.
A work in two parts: Leben und Menschen and Leben und Sinn. Poems composed by Vincenz Hundhausen (1878-1955), a German professor in Peking University in China, who occasionally wrote poetry.
Each part was printed in a separate booklet in black and red ink. The booklets are thread-bound and covered with blue silk. Both booklets are inserted in a cloth-covered cardboard slipcase.
Part one: 66 pp, part two: [2], 67-126 pp, 25 cm. Good condition. Defects to case.
* Die Gedichte aus der Tröstung der Philosophie, Konrad Weiss. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, [1956]. German.
A poetry book by Konrad Weiss with epilogue by the philosopher Josef Pieper. Numbered copy 195/1000.
130, [2] pp, 24 cm. Good condition. Cardboard slipcase.
Category
Art – Prints and books, German Literature and Bibliophile Books
Catalogue
Online Auction 010 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
August 29, 2017
Opening: $100
Sold for: $125
Including buyer's premium
Three bibliophile books printed in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s:
* Mishlei Shualim by Rabbi Berechya ben Natronai HaNakdan with woodcut drawings by Aryeh N. Michael. Berlin: Erich Reiss, 1921. Hebrew. Additional title page, introduction and table of contents in German. Limited edition of 750 copies. Vellum spine. Significant foxing.
* Chassidische Legende, Samuel Lewin, Deutsch von Arno Nadel, Mit 7 Holzschnitten von Josef Budko. [Chassidic legends by Samuel Lewin, translated into German by Arno Nadel, with seven woodcuts by Joseph Budko]. Berlin: O.v. Holten, [1925]. German.
* Rahel rechnet mit Gott, Legende [Rachel Arraigns God, a legend] by Stefan Zweig, with woodcuts by Walter Preisser. Berlin: Aldus Druck, 1930. German. Limited edition of 370 copies.
3 books. Size and condition vary.
* Mishlei Shualim by Rabbi Berechya ben Natronai HaNakdan with woodcut drawings by Aryeh N. Michael. Berlin: Erich Reiss, 1921. Hebrew. Additional title page, introduction and table of contents in German. Limited edition of 750 copies. Vellum spine. Significant foxing.
* Chassidische Legende, Samuel Lewin, Deutsch von Arno Nadel, Mit 7 Holzschnitten von Josef Budko. [Chassidic legends by Samuel Lewin, translated into German by Arno Nadel, with seven woodcuts by Joseph Budko]. Berlin: O.v. Holten, [1925]. German.
* Rahel rechnet mit Gott, Legende [Rachel Arraigns God, a legend] by Stefan Zweig, with woodcuts by Walter Preisser. Berlin: Aldus Druck, 1930. German. Limited edition of 370 copies.
3 books. Size and condition vary.
Category
Art – Prints and books, German Literature and Bibliophile Books
Catalogue
Online Auction 010 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
August 29, 2017
Opening: $50
Sold for: $63
Including buyer's premium
Three German bibliophile books accompanied by illustrations:
* Der Kirschgarten, Komödie in vier Akten, von Anton Tschechow. Munich: Georg Muller, 1919. German.
"The Cherry Orchard", a comedy in four acts by Anton Chekhov, accompanied by 15 lithographs in color by Rudolf Grossmann. Numbered copy 133/350.
115, [2] pp + [15] lithograph-plates, 28 cm. Good condition. Lacking spine. Damage to binding.
* Der Vampir, Der Vampir, eine phantastische Novelle, Aleksey K. Tolstoy. Munich: Orchis, 1922. German.
"The Vampire", a novella by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, accompanied by 16 lithograph plates by Wassili Nikolajewitsch Masjutin, signed in pencil. Numbered copy 90/200.
92, [2] pp + [16] lithograph plates, 18.5 cm.
* Der Spieler, roman, Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski. Munich: Phantasus, 1922. German.
"The Gambler", a novel by Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski accompanied by illustrations by Ottomar Starke. Unnumbered copy out of an edition of 430 copies.
257, [3] pp, 28 cm. Good condition. Stains. Binding with leather spine. Damage to binding.
* Der Kirschgarten, Komödie in vier Akten, von Anton Tschechow. Munich: Georg Muller, 1919. German.
"The Cherry Orchard", a comedy in four acts by Anton Chekhov, accompanied by 15 lithographs in color by Rudolf Grossmann. Numbered copy 133/350.
115, [2] pp + [15] lithograph-plates, 28 cm. Good condition. Lacking spine. Damage to binding.
* Der Vampir, Der Vampir, eine phantastische Novelle, Aleksey K. Tolstoy. Munich: Orchis, 1922. German.
"The Vampire", a novella by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, accompanied by 16 lithograph plates by Wassili Nikolajewitsch Masjutin, signed in pencil. Numbered copy 90/200.
92, [2] pp + [16] lithograph plates, 18.5 cm.
* Der Spieler, roman, Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski. Munich: Phantasus, 1922. German.
"The Gambler", a novel by Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski accompanied by illustrations by Ottomar Starke. Unnumbered copy out of an edition of 430 copies.
257, [3] pp, 28 cm. Good condition. Stains. Binding with leather spine. Damage to binding.
Category
Art – Prints and books, German Literature and Bibliophile Books
Catalogue
Online Auction 010 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
August 29, 2017
Opening: $50
Sold for: $113
Including buyer's premium
Three illustrated bibliophile books:
* Book of Jonah, woodcuts by Jacob Steinhardt. Calligraphy by Francesca Baruch. Published by the "Jewish Publication Society of America". Philadelphia, 1953. Hebrew and English.
Book of Jonah, calligraphy by Francesca Baruch in Hebrew and English, with woodcuts by Jacob Steinhardt. Enclosed is a single leaf with an introduction about the book of Jonah by Dr. Haim Greenberg, printed on both sides, in English and Hebrew.
[20] leaves, 33.5 cm. Good condition. Dark stains to paper wrapper.
* Das Buch Jona. Vienna: Neuer Graphik der Ritola Verlag A.G., 1921. German.
Book of Jona, German translation. Facsimile of calligraphy by Julius Zimpel, with 17 black and white lithographs by Uriel Birenbaum, signed in pencil. Numbered copy, 15/300. Signed by Zimpel and Birenbaum in the colophon.
[22] leaves, 43.5 cm. Good condition, Foxing. Vellum spine. Damage to binding.
* "Kelev Chutzot", small section of "Temol Shilshom", by S.Y. Agnon. Illustrations by Avigdor Aricha. Jerusalem: Tarshish Publishing, 1960.
A book with 12 out of 80 chapters of the novel "Temol Shilshom" by Shmuel Yosef Agnon. Illustrations by the artist Avigdor Aricha.
96 pp, 27 cm. Good condition. Stains and tears to cover.
* Book of Jonah, woodcuts by Jacob Steinhardt. Calligraphy by Francesca Baruch. Published by the "Jewish Publication Society of America". Philadelphia, 1953. Hebrew and English.
Book of Jonah, calligraphy by Francesca Baruch in Hebrew and English, with woodcuts by Jacob Steinhardt. Enclosed is a single leaf with an introduction about the book of Jonah by Dr. Haim Greenberg, printed on both sides, in English and Hebrew.
[20] leaves, 33.5 cm. Good condition. Dark stains to paper wrapper.
* Das Buch Jona. Vienna: Neuer Graphik der Ritola Verlag A.G., 1921. German.
Book of Jona, German translation. Facsimile of calligraphy by Julius Zimpel, with 17 black and white lithographs by Uriel Birenbaum, signed in pencil. Numbered copy, 15/300. Signed by Zimpel and Birenbaum in the colophon.
[22] leaves, 43.5 cm. Good condition, Foxing. Vellum spine. Damage to binding.
* "Kelev Chutzot", small section of "Temol Shilshom", by S.Y. Agnon. Illustrations by Avigdor Aricha. Jerusalem: Tarshish Publishing, 1960.
A book with 12 out of 80 chapters of the novel "Temol Shilshom" by Shmuel Yosef Agnon. Illustrations by the artist Avigdor Aricha.
96 pp, 27 cm. Good condition. Stains and tears to cover.
Category
Art – Prints and books, German Literature and Bibliophile Books
Catalogue
Online Auction 010 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
August 29, 2017
Opening: $50
Sold for: $238
Including buyer's premium
BeIkvot Mashiach, by Gershom Scholem. Jerusalem: Tarshish, 1944.
"Anthology of sources from the early days of the development of the Sabbatean faith. Compiled from writings by Rabbi Avraham Binyamin Nathan ben Elisha Haim Ashkenazi named Nathan of Gaza". Numbered copy 58/125.
144 pp, [2] leaves, 19.5 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Single worming hole to spine.
"Anthology of sources from the early days of the development of the Sabbatean faith. Compiled from writings by Rabbi Avraham Binyamin Nathan ben Elisha Haim Ashkenazi named Nathan of Gaza". Numbered copy 58/125.
144 pp, [2] leaves, 19.5 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Single worming hole to spine.
Category
Art – Prints and books, German Literature and Bibliophile Books
Catalogue