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LOT 29:
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Sold for: $150
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$500 - $700
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(AMSTERDAM).
DE CASTRO, DAVID HENRIQUES. Keur van Grafsteenen op de Nederl.-Portug.-Israël. Begraafplaats te Ouderkerk aan den Amstel. Met Beschrijving en Biographische Aanteekeningen. [“Selected Gravestones from the Dutch Portuguese Jewish Cemetery at Ouderkerk…with Descriptions and Biographical Notes.”]
Vol. I (All Published). Dutch interspersed with Hebrew. Frontispiece view of cemetery, plan and 15 photographic plates of gravestones. With marginal notes containing detailed corrections (editor’s copy)? Worn and loose. Original printed boards stained and detached, gutter split. Folio. Sold not subject to return.
Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1883.
The editor of this work, David de Mozes Henriques de Castro, along with his wife, Sara Lopes Suasso, were renowned art collectors and bibliophiles, specializing in the history of Amsterdam's Portuguese Jewish community. See L. Hagoort, Het Beth Haim in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel: De begraafplaats van de Portugese Joden in Amsterdam 1614-1945
