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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LOT 248:
ENGELBRECHT, MARTIN. “Temple des Juifs.”
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Sold for: $3,000
Start price:
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2,500
Estimated price :
$3,000 - $5,000
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
On the full lot's price and commission
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ENGELBRECHT, MARTIN.
“Temple des Juifs.”
A rare Jewish ‘peep-show’ diorama depicting the interior of Amsterdam’s resplendent Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue with congregation at celebrating its inauguration.
Six individual, hand-colored engravings, intricately cut, to be displayed in sequence, of the Synagogue, showing the vaulted interior flanked by Ionic columns; each card adding another pictorial element to make up the whole.
Some light stains and wear. 7 x 8.5 inches.
* Accompanied by: Fitted wooden display stand. When placed together a 3-D perspective view is created.
Augsburg, c. 1740.
This rare Jewish “pop-up” diorama recreates the inauguration ceremonies of Amsterdam’s Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue. The depiction is reminiscent of the famed engraving by Romeyn de Hooghe (1695).
In the mid 18th-century the German Baroque engraver and publisher Martin Engelbrecht (1684-1756) created miniature theatres, these were individual views, cut out and assembled, whereby, when consecutively inserted into a peep box, the result was a 'theatrical' scene with a perspective view.
Another synagogue version of these engravings depicting the raising of the Torah Scroll (Hagbahah) during Sabbath morning services was sold by Kestenbaum in Sale 104, Lot 171.
For other dioramas created by Engelbrecht held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, see: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/651671
See also Jewish Theological Seminary Library Catalogue, Sanctuary & Synagogue: The Experience of the Portuguese and Ashkenazic Jews in Amsterdam (1998).
