Noah Blesses the Animals, [1954]. Wooduct by Jacob Steinhardt (1887-1968).
Signed in pencil.
Woodcut: 37X46.5 cm. Good condition. Creases. Small tears at margins of leaf.
Kolb 352.
Provenance: Collection of Hermann Meyer and his daughter Hannah Sapir.

1. The Book of Jonah, woodcuts by Jacob Stienhardt, calligraphy by Franzisca Baruch. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1953.
The Book of Jonah in Hebrew and English, accompanied by sixteen woodcuts by Jacob Steinhardt. Calligraphy by Franzisca Baruch
The book is signed by Steinhardt on both title pages (the Hebrew and the English).
[40] pp, 33 cm. Good condition. Stains. Damages at margins of binding.
2. "Jonah, woodcuts and artistic calligraphy by Mordechay Laufer". Published by "Universitas", Jerusalem, [1950s?]. Original sketch for a book which was never published.
Presented are: * Sketches for two title pages in calligraphic script (Hebrew and English), accompanied by an illustration. Ink on paper. * Sketch for a page with the verse "And the Lord said to the fish, and it casted out Jonah to the dry land" (Hebrew) in calligraphic script, alongside a woodcut-like illustration. Ink on paper. * Complete draft of a book, with typewritten verses on pieces of paper mounted on leaves, accompanied by thirteen woodcuts.
3 sketch leaves: 32 cm. Complete draft of a book: [12] leaves, 35 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Creases. Tears.
Provenance: Collection of Hermann Meyer and his daughter Hannah Sapir.

"Shtetl, mayn khorever haym – a gedekhenish". Berlin: Schwellen, [1923].
A book in album format with 28 (out of 29) reproductions of paintings by Issachar Ber Ryback (1897-1935). The emblem of the publishing house, the title page and all 28 paintings were printed in lithographic printing.
III, V-XXXI, [1] leaf (lacking: leaf no. IV and a leaf with the table of contents originally attached to the last leaf), 34X49.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Ink stains at bottom margins of leaves. Small tears at margins. Open tear to last leaf (blank). Defects to binding and spine. Tears to joints between binding and body of book.

Help!! Sauvez! Hilfe!!, Anatol Gurewitsch. Tel-Aviv: Paideia – Humanistic Publishing House, 1939.
A poem and 15 impressive linocuts, in the spirit of German Expressionism, by Anatol Gurewitsch, all depicting the persecution of Jews in Germany.
Anatol Gurewitsch (1919-2005), born in Russia, studied in Germany, France and Italy and with the Israeli painters Miron Sima and Yitzchak Frenkel. Immigrated to Palestine in 1934, where he painted and designed stage sets and costumes for the theater.
[1] leaf + [15] linocuts. 34 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and creases to body of book. Small tears and open tear to margins of last leaf. Dark stains, tears, open tears and defects to binding. Rebound in hard binding.

Two woodcuts by Félix Vallotton (1865-1925).
1. Homer. Signed in the plate in initials. Signed in pencil.
Woodcut: 16.5X12 cm, leaf: 32.5X26.5 cm. Good condition. Light creases to leaf margins. Foxing. Paper strip glued to leaf's upper margins, on verso.
2. Bibliophile. Signed in the plate. Not signed by hand.
Woodcut: 22.5X17.5 cm, leaf: 39.5X31 cm. Good condition. Foxing (mostly to leaf margins, around the woodcut). Paper strip and two paper pieces glued to upper margins of the leaf, on verso.