Bidspirit auctions | Kedem Auction Jul 19, 2022
Kedem, Jul 19, 2022. 424 lots.
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The present catalogue includes an extensive chapter dedicated to Bezalel artists, including illustrated books, various objects, drawing and paintings. This chapter features numerous original sketches for works by Ze'ev Raban - Raban's sketchbook (lot 318), sketches for illustrations to the Song of Songs (lot 320), sketches of the signs of the Zodiac (lot 327), a large collection of photographs of works by Raban and Meir Gur Aryeh (lot 344), and many other unique items from the estate of Shlomo Kedmi, who succeeded Raban and Gur Aryeh in the Industrial Art Studio.
The chapter dedicated to Hebrew children's books features charming works by prominent writers and illustrators: stories by Benzion Raskin illustrated by Uriel Kahana, Chaim Hanft and Haim Goldberg; poems by Itzhak Katzenelson illustrated by Gertrud Caspari; rhymes by Ya'akov David Kamson illustrated by Else Wenz-Viëtor; children's book published by "Omanut", with color lithograph illustrations by "Chavurat Tsayarim" (Apter, Mutzelmacher, Kravtsov and Higer); pop-up books illustrated by David Gilboa; and other rare books.
The avant-garde chapter features Yiiddish, Hebrew and Russian books, with illustrations and cover-designs by important Russian avant-garde artists such as El Lissitzky, Joseph Chaikov, Issachar Ber Ryback, Mark Epstein and Nathan Altman.
The catalogue further features a variety of choice items representing the history of Palestine and Zionism, bibliophile works, letters, travelogues and maps of Palestine, photographs, postcards, rare Ladino periodicals, works by Safed-based artist Yosef Zvi Geiger, bibliophile works, a chapter dedicated to numismatics, and many more items.
Lots in this catalog (424)
- Lot 1: Bilingual Broadside – Appeal for Donations for the Jewish Settlement in Palestine,
- Lot 2: Four Large Photographs – Zionist Conventions in Russia,
- Lot 3: Stenographisches Protokoll der Verhandlungen des III. Zionisten-Congresses. Protocol of the second Zionist Congress.
- Lot 4: The Zionist Congresses, 1920s to 1940s – Collection of Ephemera – Mizrachi Representative Rabbi Moshe HaMeiri Ostrovsky
- Lot 5: Issue of The Times – November 1917 – First Press Publication of the Balfour Declaration
- Lot 6: Leaflet Published by the English Zionist Federation – With Text of the Balfour Declaration,
- Lot 7: Political Broadsides and Publications – Bund, OZET,
- Lot 8: Manifesto of the Jewish National Fund – German Version – The Hague,
- Lot 9: Two Promotional Leaflets for JNF Stamps – Theodor Herzl and Max Nordau – Germany, 1909
- Lot 10: Zionist Weekly "La Nation" – Bound Volume of First Year Issues – Istanbul, 1919-1920
- Lot 11: Establishing the Site of Herzl's Grave in Palestine, 1935 – Two Memoranda Addressed to the Zionist Congress
- Lot 12: Calendar of the Zionist Federation of Germany for Hebrew Year 5697 – Berlin, 1936 – Photographs from Palestine
- Lot 13: "Theodor Herzl" Troop of the Youth Movement "Universal Union of Jewish Youth" in Tunis – Tally Book, with Drawings,
- Lot 14: Ivan Sors – Drawings and Prints – Portrait Series of Zionist Leaders (Herzl, Nordau, Weizmann),
- Lot 15: "A Hundred Hebrew Songs" – Zionist-Turkish Song Book, Including "HaTikvah"
- Lot 16: "Va'ad Shivat Zion" (The Return to Zion Committee) in Cairo – Two Letters about Jewish Exiles in Egypt,
- Lot 17: Embroidered Band – Jewish Legion – World War I
- Lot 18: Six Postcards with Photographs of Jewish Soldiers – WWI
- Lot 19: "List of the Austro-Hungarian Subjects in Safed" – Safed,
- Lot 20: Announcement of the Election Results for the "Eretz Israeli Assembly" (1903) / Official Letter and Regulations Leaflet
- Lot 21: Collection of Ephemera – First Assembly of Representatives and the Jewish National Council – Early 1920s – Mizrachi
- Lot 22: The Ben-Yehuda Dictionary – Two Booklets from the "Mahadura Kama" – Jerusalem, 1902
- Lot 23: "The Soil- and Fertilization Conditions in Palestine" – Agricultural Guidebook by Templer Agronomist Fritz Keller –
- Lot 24: Collection of Letters and Documents – Letters written by Menashe Meirovitch,
- Lot 25: Collection of Postcards with a Zionist Connection – Europe and Palestine,
- Lot 26: "Economic Atlas of Palestine" – Davis Trietsch – Berlin, 1926 – Original Portfolio
- Lot 27: Davis Trietsch – The Rare "Atlas of the Jewish World" – Berlin, 1926 – Original Portfolio
- Lot 28: Three Booklets with Maps of Tel Aviv – "The Sheinfeld Map", the First Map of Tel Aviv – 1920s and 1930s
- Lot 29: Early Palestine Telephone Directory – Jerusalem, 1926 – Rare
- Lot 30: "Krovetz LePurim" Holiday Booklet – Tel Aviv, 1934 / Illustrated Advertising Poster for the "Adloyada" in Tel Aviv,
- Lot 31: Advertisement Poster – Launch of the Daily Newspaper "HaTzofe" – Tel Aviv, 1937
- Lot 32: "First Class Tailoring" – Hand-Painted Sign
- Lot 33: The Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the New York World's Fair (1939) – Contributing Member Card
- Lot 34: The Trial of Ze'ev Jabotinsky – Three Contemporary Publications – April-May,
- Lot 35: "The Palestine Disturbances" – Illustrations by Nahum Gutman,
- Lot 36: Collection of Circulars and Publications – A.R.P – World War II
- Lot 37: Hand-Drawn Poster – A Lecture by Arnold Zweig on the Subject of the Battle of Stalingrad – Haifa,
- Lot 38: Revisionist Zionism – Collection of Broadsides and Documents,
- Lot 39: Collection of Posters and Publications on the Subject of Illegal Immigration – The Haganah, the Irgun Tzva'i Le'umi,
- Lot 40: The Irgun – Braodside and Propaganda Sheets – Holocaust Survivors in Europe, 1947
- Lot 41: Label with the Flag of Britain and a Swastika – Protest Against Deportation of Exodus Illegal Immigrants – 1947
- Lot 42: Women Underground Fighters in Mandatory Palestine,
- Lot 43: Gilgil Internment Camp, Kenya – Collection of Items belonging to a Member of the Lehi,
- Lot 44: Collection of Photographs from Atlit Detention Camp – 1940s
- Lot 45: A Ketubah and a Souvenir Card with Photomontage – Detention Camp in Cyprus, 1948
- Lot 46: Handmade Ticket – HaOved HaTzioni Exhibition in Detention Camp 62, Cyprus – May 1948
- Lot 47: Kibbutz Giv'ot Zaid – Letters, Photographs and Documents – Late 1930s to 1950s
- Lot 48: Collection of Letters by the Emissary of "Hever HaKevutzot VeHaKibbutzim" to North Africa – Sent to a Member of
- Lot 49: "Mishmar Ha'Am" – Large Collection of Documents from the time of Israel's War of Independence – The Montefiore
- Lot 50: Collection of Photographs – Soldiers in the British Army, the Haganah, the Palmach,
- Lot 51: Photo Album – The Givati Brigade during the 1948 War – Reprisal Operations in Arab Villages,
- Lot 52: Photo album – The Givati Brigade during the 1948 War – Opening the Road to the Negev, Operation Yoav, 1948
- Lot 53: "Thus…? Or Thus" – Israeli Propaganda Leaflet in Arabic – The 1948 Arab-Israeli War
- Lot 54: "The Jewish State Has Been Established" – Issue of Davar Newspaper Announcing the Results of the Vote on the Partition
- Lot 55: "In the Exile of Kenya" – Issue of May 14, 1948 – "Tonight the State of Israel will be Declared"
- Lot 56: The Christian Science Monitor – Issue of May 15,
- Lot 57: "Yiddishe Melukhe" – Issue of the Yiddish Newspaper "Der Tog" Reporting on the Establishment of the State of Israel –
- Lot 58: "The State of Israel has Been Established" – Issue of HaMashkif,
- Lot 59: "Unzer Ziel" – Bound Volume of Issues – Organ of "Hatzohar" in Austria – Linz,
- Lot 60: Photograph showing Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia,
- Lot 61: "To My Friends in the Mizrachi (Internal!
- Lot 62: Sign from the Third World Conference on Women, Signed by Israeli Delegates – Nairobi, 1985
- Lot 63: Dan Ben Amotz – Two Portrait Photographs by David Rubinger
- Lot 64: Newspaper Column by Dan Ben Amotz – Paste-up and Negatives for Print
- Lot 65: Dan Ben Amotz and Amos Kenan – "Democracy, Sweetie – You've Slept Long Enough!" – Illustrated Protest Poster
- Lot 66: "Dan Ben Amotz's New Book is Out!" – Poster
- Lot 67: Dan Ben Amotz,
- Lot 68: "The Human Body and its Limbs" – Educational Poster in Hebrew – Published by Menorah, Vienna
- Lot 69: "Farmer Woman, Join the Collective!" – Yiddish Color Poster – Russia
- Lot 70: Poster Designed by Otto Arpke – Advertisement for the Mediterranean Cruises of Hamburg-America Line – 1930s
- Lot 71: Advertising Poster for a Costume Party – Ophir Silent Movie Theater – Tel Aviv, 1929
- Lot 72: Movie Poster – "Resurrection, " based on Leo Tolstoy's Last Novel – Ophir Silent Movie Theater – Tel Aviv, 1929
- Lot 73: "May 1, 1959" – Poster Designed by Giladi-Gofer
- Lot 74: Tourism in Israel – Two Color Poster Advertisements for International Airlines – Air France and BOAC – 1960s
- Lot 75: Two Anti-Semitic Posters – Leningrad, 1972 and 1984
- Lot 76: Autograph Letter and Postcard, Signed by Stefan Zweig – 1909 and 1938
- Lot 77: The Poetess Elisheva – Autograph Letter Signed, with Lines from a Poem / Letter from her Husband,
- Lot 78: Uri Zvi Greenberg – Two Inscribed Books / Two Photographs
- Lot 79: Aryeh Ludwig Strauss – Collection of Books of Poetry and Prose – Signed and Dedicated by the Author
- Lot 80: Guest Book – Israel Journalists Association Building, Tel Aviv,
- Lot 81: "Fors L'Honneur" – Trials of the Perpetrators of the Algiers Putsch – 1963 – Dedication to Uzi Narkiss,
- Lot 82: "Destruction of Jerusalem" – Double Incunable Leaf from Hartmann Schedel's "Nuremberg Chronicle, " 1493
- Lot 83: Two Maps of Palestine – Jean-Baptiste d'Anville / Rigobert Bonne – 18th Century
- Lot 84: Collection of Maps – Jerusalem, Palestine and More – 18th-19th Centuries
- Lot 85: Map of Palestine – Engraving by Josiah Neele – England, 19th Century
- Lot 86: The PEF Survey of Western Palestine Map – Large Map Comprised of 26 Separate Sheets – London, 1880 – First Edition
- Lot 87: Map of Jerusalem – Heinrich Kiepert – Berlin, 1845
- Lot 88: Book of Edicts and Regulations, and Two Works about Jews and Judaism – Italy,
- Lot 89: Uebersetzung der Algemeinen Welthistorie (Universal History) – Part Nine, Jewish History – Maps of Jerusalem,
- Lot 90: Apparatus Biblicus, by Bernard Lamy – London, 1723 – Maps of Palestine and Jerusalem, Plan of the Temple,
- Lot 91: Travels, or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant, by Thomas Shaw – London,
- Lot 92: A Companion to the Holy Bible by Edward Wells – London, 1808 – Engraved Maps and Illustrations
- Lot 93: "Views in Egypt" – Hand-colored Aquatints after Drawings by Luigy Mayer – London, 1801
- Lot 94: "Views in Palestine" – Hand-colored Aquatints after Drawings by Luigy Mayer – London, 1804
- Lot 95: Francis B. Spilsbury,
- Lot 96: David Roberts, "The Holy Land" – 120 Lithographs – London, Paris and New York, Early 1880s
- Lot 97: William Henry Bartlett – Walks about the City and Environs of Jerusalem / Jerusalem Revisited – With Illustrations –
- Lot 98: Collection of Travelogues and Studies on Palestine – Henry Maundrell, Claude Reignier Conder,
- Lot 99: Animals in the Bible – A Comprehensive Study by Samuel Buchart, London, 1663 – First Edition
- Lot 100: Bernard Picart, The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Several Nations of the Known World – Vol.
- Lot 101: "Jewish Ceremonies", by Paul Christian Kirchner – Nuremberg,
- Lot 102: Two Albums with Pressed Flowers and Pictures from Palestine,
- Lot 103: Two Hundred Stereographic Photographs of Palestine, Accompanying Handbook,
- Lot 104: One Hundred Stereographic Photographs of Palestine, with Accompanying Guide – Produced by Underwood & Underwood,
- Lot 105: Egypt and Palestine, Photographed and Described by Francis Frith – London and New York, 1858-1859
- Lot 106: Three Color Photographs – Wildflowers of Palestine – Photographers of the American Colony, Jerusalem,
- Lot 107: Photo Album by Tsadok Bassan – "Lemaan-Zion" Eye Clinic
- Lot 108: Souvenir Composite Photograph – Laying the Cornerstone for the Moshava Neve Ya'akov, 1924 – "Tzalmania Tzion,
- Lot 109: "The Holy Land 1910-1921" – 70 Photogravures by Shlomo Narinsky
- Lot 110: Two Postcards – "Herzliya" Hebrew Gymnasium, First and Second Classes, 1913-1914 – Abraham Soskin
- Lot 111: Collection of Photographs by Avraham Soskin – Palestine, First Decades of the 20th Century
- Lot 112: Nine Early Photographs of Palestine – Nahalal, Degania and Kvutzat Kineret – 1920s
- Lot 113: Collection of Photographs – Groups of Travelers in Palestine, 1920s – Photos of Geographer Zev Vilnay,
- Lot 114: Collection of Photographs – Haifa, Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv and Jewish Settlements, 1920s
- Lot 115: Collection of Photographs by Photographer Zechariah Kottler – Album for the Solel Boneh Company and Photographs of
- Lot 116: Photo Album – Lake Hula and the Struggle against Malaria in Palestine Led by Prof. Gideon Mer – 1930s-1940s
- Lot 117: Kurt Triest – Photographs and Draft for a Photobook – 1930s-1940s
- Lot 118: Moshe Raviv-Vorobeichic – Two Book Cover Sketches – 1930s
- Lot 119: Collection of Photographs – "Maccabiah" Events and Sports Teams – Palestine, 1930s
- Lot 120: Ten Prints of Photographs – Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron – Alexander Ganan
- Lot 121: Walter Christeller – Collection of Photographs – 1940s
- Lot 122: Collection of Aerial Photographs – Jewish Settlements in Palestine, 1930s-1940s
- Lot 123: Photo Album by Alfons Himmelreich – Mif'al HaShiloach
- Lot 124: Photo Album – Shmuel Yosef Schweig / Keren HaYesod – 1950s
- Lot 125: Three "Shanah Tovah" Postcards with Photographs of Palestine – Vienna/Austria, Early 20th Century
- Lot 126: Unfolding "Shanah Tovah" Card – With Picture of Participants in the First Zionist Congress and Portraits of Jewish,
- Lot 127: "Shanah Tovah" Greeting Card – Portraits of Baron Rothschild, Moses Montefiore, the Gaon of Vilna,
- Lot 128: "Shanah Tovah" Greeting Card – Temple Site and Moshavot – Frankfurt, Late 19th or Early 20th Century
- Lot 129: "Shanah Tova" Greeting Card – Flowers from Safed – 1910s
- Lot 130: Four "Shanah Tovah" Postcards – Reznik Press, Warsaw and New York
- Lot 131: Twelve "Shanah Tovah" Postcards – USA
- Lot 132: Fourteen "Shanah Tovah" Postcards – Germany and Poland
- Lot 133: Assorted Collection of "Shanah Tovah" Greeting Cards and Postcards – Early Decades of the 20th Century
- Lot 134: Nine "Shanah Tovah" Greeting Cards from Palestine – First Half of the 20th Century
- Lot 135: Ten Postcards – Illustrations and Caricatures of Jews – Early 20th Century
- Lot 136: Collection of Postcards – Synagogues in Europe – Late 19th Century and Early 20th Century
- Lot 137: Four Postcards – Agudat Israel Orphanage in Baden, Austria – Vienna, ca. 1922
- Lot 138: Assortment of Postcards – Letters Sent to the German Colony in Haifa – Early 20th Century
- Lot 139: Four Undivided Souvenir Postcards from Palestine – Late 19th Century
- Lot 140: Collection of Undivided "Holy Land" Postcards – Jerusalem: Palmer, Kappus & Co.
- Lot 141: Collection of "Holy Land" Postcards – Paris, Early 20th Century
- Lot 142: "Kinereth & Jordan Land" – Postcard Booklet – Ya'acov Ben-Dov
- Lot 143: Rehovot – Postcard Booklet – Ya'acov Ben-Dov
- Lot 144: Galilee – Postcard Booklet – Ya'acov Ben-Dov
- Lot 145: Large Collection of Postcards – Palestine and Israel, Early 20th Century to 1980s
- Lot 146: Six Postcards – Cafes and Restaurants of Tel Aviv
- Lot 147: Postcard – Hotel Elisabetha / Feingold Hotel, Tiberias, Prior to its Opening – 1920s
- Lot 148: Extensive Collection of Postcards – Hotels and Hostels in Palestine – Late 19th Century to Late 20th Century
- Lot 149: Journey of Kaiser Wilhelm II to the Holy Land – Collection of Postcards – 1898
- Lot 150: Commemorative Album – Photographs from the Visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Palestine – Taken by Empress Augusta Victoria