Auction of Judaica. Including a large offering of Americana from a distinguished Private Collection. Focusing on Jews in the American Civil War, featuring photographs, autograph letters and printed books.
Judaica books and manuscripts (non-Hebraic) are offered next.
This includes two important letters from the United States regarding Edgardo Mortara (Lot 31); an exceptionally rare E.M. Lilien livre-de-artiste (Lot 150); an impressive 18th-century plate-book featuring the Holy Land (Lot 156); a recently discovered illustrated letter by Arthur Szyk (Lot 199).
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LOT 121:
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Start price:
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1,500
Estimated price :
$2,000 - $3,000
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875% On the full lot's price and commission
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(POLAND).
Spis Abonentów Sieci Telefonicznych Dyrekcji Okręgu Poczt i Telegrafów w Krakowie na 1939 r. [“List of Subscribers of Telephone Networks…in Cracow, 1939.”]
Text entirely in Polish. Numerous illustrated ads.
pp. viii, 9-202, (38). Browned and stained in places. Original four-color printed wrappers, stained and worn from use. Sm. folio.
Warsaw 1939.
THE CRACOW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY, FOR THE YEAR 1939.. An extraordinarily valuable resource for genealogical research.
In addition to Cracow itself, the directory includes telephone listings for many towns in the surrounding region. e.g. Kielce, Oswiecim, Radomsk, Tarnow, etc. Scores of smaller hamlets and villages also feature, often with just a handful of telephone subscribers - even at times, just one or two. - Jewish names appear regularly.
Entries include a personal name, occupation, street address, and telephone number. A business directory appears at the end.
Cracow is Poland’s largest city after Warsaw. In 1939, 60,000 Jews lived there, constituting some 25% of the city’s total population. Following the German occupation of September, 1939, all Jewish community organizations were forcibly dismantled, a Judenrat was set up, followed by a ghetto and then deportations to extermination camps. Cracow was the capital of Nazi-occupied Poland. Needless to say, its Jews were doomed.
