Auction of Judaica focusing on printed books and handwritten documents and other manuscripts. Divided into categories as follows:
Religious Hebrew books take up the first third of the auction. Highlights are: The first edition of two parts of the Shulchan Aruch (Venice, 1565, Lots 37 and 38) a large fragment of the Tanach Constantinople, 1522 (lot 5); and several Zhitomir / Slavita imprints.
Also appearing are Rabbinic manuscripts and letters from such luminaries as Yehuda Aszod (lot 57); Avraham Azulai (lot 73); Reuven ibn Yahya (lot 78); Moshe Provencal (lot 87); Ya’akov Toledano (lot 90), etc.
The personal silver Kiddush cup of the Ribnitzer Rebbe (lot 56) will of course attract much attention.
The sale highlight is lot 94: An exceptional illuminated manuscript that has never before appeared at public auction. A Passover Hagadah created by the celebrated artistic-scribe Eliezer Sussman Mezeritsch, Frankfurt, 1833.
The next section (lots 108-178) represents Judaica stemming from across the globe, including Australia, Brazil, China, the German-speaking lands, Gibraltar, Poland, Russia, etc. Also included is much on Holy Land travel, the Land of Israel and Zionism.
The section of Antisemitica / Holocaust includes an exceptional illuminated manuscript (lot 208) devoted to the Polish Jews of Częstochowa. Also of importance is a recently uncovered diary from 1945 of a young Hungarian Jewess who survived Auschwitz (lot 205); and a large archive of personal documents of a German-Jewish doctor who spent the years 1939-47 in Shanghai.
General Judaica (lots 209-245) includes the first edition of Bartolocci’s first ever bibliography of Hebrew books (Rome, 1675, lot 209); a unique copy of the Edgardo Mortara’s autobiography, personally signed by him (lot 226); and the first edition of one of the rarest works of Spanish-Jewish literature, Moses Almosnino’s Extremos y Grandezas de Constantinopla (Madrid, 1638, lot 231).
The penultimate section of the sale (lot 241-267) are illustrated books and graphic art including several fine books from the magnificent hand of Arthur Szyk, including two original drawings by him (lots 258, 259).
The final section of the sale are fine books that stem from the library of the late Charles Wuorinen, being English & Continental Early Printed Books (lots 268-291).
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LOTE 27:
(HAGADAH). A New Critical Edition with English ...
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Preço inicial:
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19 000
Preço estimado :
$20 000 - $30 000
Comissão da leiloeira: 25%
IVA: 8.875%
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(HAGADAH).
A New Critical Edition with English Translation, Introduction, and Notes, Literary, Historical, and Archeological, by Cecil Roth. Hebrew text and English translation.
PRINTED ENTIRELY ON VELLUM. ONE OF ONLY NINE COPIES.
Designed by Albert Rutherston.
Fifteen full-page illustrations and numerous head and tailpieces, all stenciled in colors under the supervision of Harold Curwen.
Hebrew fonts by Enschede. English font set in Baskerville. Signed by Cecil Roth and Albert Rutherston on limitation page.
pp. xl, (2 blank), 209 (2). Opening pastedown with bookplate of Anna and Robert H. Siskin, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Original gilt-ruled dark green crushed morocco by Henry T. Wood, upper cover with gilt-tooled illustration, leather and brass clasps and hinges, all edges gilt. Folio.
Yaari, Hagadah Bibliography, no. 2149; unknown to Yudlov.
London, for the Soncino Press, 1930.
A Beautifully Designed Hagadah by Albert Daniel Rutherston. Sumptuously Produced at the Curwen Press. The Vellum Copy.
From an overall edition of 110 copies, this is one of only nine copies produced on vellum (numbered II - X), this copy numbered “X.”
"In issuing this new edition of the Haggadah, the publishers have aimed at giving to this time-honoured liturgy a setting of consummate beauty, a fitting testimony to the almost filial affection in which it is held by the Jewish people" (Publisher's note by J. Davidson).
The Anglo-Jewish artist Albert Rutherston (1881-1953), younger brother of Willliam Rothenstein, studied at London’s Slade School of Fine Art. His social circle included such literary and artistic luminaries as Augustus John, William Orpen, Charles Conder, Walter Sickert and Wyndham Lewis. Rutherston taught at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts before he was appointed Ruskin Master of Drawing in Oxford (1929-49). In 1936 he was one of the founder members of the Pottery Group, along with Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson and Graham Sutherland.
Unlike his contemporary Arthur Szyk, who of course designed an equally celebrated Hagadah on vellum, Rutherston and his art did not remain self-enclosed within the confines of the Jewish experience. Rutherston took his Jewish artistic talents to the broader world, and became closely associated with some of the greatest names of 20th-century English arts as an influential member of the highly select Bloomsbury Group. Rutherston was treated as an equal by these giants of English literature and the arts while still preserving his Jewish identity, as exemplified by this extravagantly designed, exceptional Passover Hagadah.
