With much stemming from the estates of three knowledgeable Judaica collectors, this wide-ranging auction contains many sub-categories of Judaica.
The sale is divided as follows:
Lots 1-45: Hebrew Printed Books, including sections of Bindings, Miniatures, and a significant offering of Minhagim Books.
Lots 46-55: Manuscripts, including an autograph letter by Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson.
Lots 56-114 represents Judaica stemming from across the globe, including the United States, England, China, the German-speaking lands, India, the Land of Israel, Poland, Spain and elsewhere. Also included are sections focusing on the Holocaust, Zionism and cook-books.
An offering of illustrated books are in lots 115-134.
A stupendous single owner collection of the very best Holy Land maps are found in lots 138-151.
Graphic Arts are Lots 152-215. Most prominently are nine pictures by Itshak Holtz; a fine portrait by Isidor Kaufmann, as well as art from Samuel Hirszenberg, Jozef Isaëls, Artur Markowicz, Jacques Tissot, Saul Raskin, Boris Schatz and Yohanan Simon, among others.
Ceremonial objects are lots 216 to the end of the sale.
The final lot (332) is the extraordinary pre-war Dreidel collection formed by Arthur Kurzweil.
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LOT 9:
BIBLE, (Hebrew, Pentateuch). Chamishah Chumshei ...
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Sold for: $1,200
Price including buyer’s premium and sales tax:
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1,633.13
Start price:
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1,200
Estimated price :
$1,500 - $2,000
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
On the full lot's price and commission
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BIBLE, (Hebrew, Pentateuch).
Chamishah Chumshei Torah.
One of 850 copies. Printed on Van Gelder paper. Typeface designed by Marcus Behmer. Woodcut decorative title in blue, brown and black. Initial word of each of the Five Books surrounded by arabesques and printed in brown and black, few verses and single words printed in red.
Opening and closing blanks browned. Modern chestnut calf. Folio.
Berlin, Officina Serpentis (E. W Tiffenbach) for Soncino Gesellschaft,
1931-33.
“RANKS AMONG THE MOST BEAUTIFUL HEBREW BOOKS EVER PRINTED” (A.J. Karp).
The most ambitious undertaking of the Soncino Gesellschaft der Freunde des juedischen Buches, an organization of German-Jewish bibliophiles.
This Bible was printed with a new typeface designed by Marcus Behmer and styled on the Prague Hagadah of Gershom Kohen. The intended completion of the entire Bible was aborted due to the rise of Nazism.
According to A.J. Karp, the verse in Deuteronomy 33:29, “Your enemies shall dwindle away before you, and you shall tread upon their high places” was printed in red, in silent but eloquent protest against the rise of Nazism in Germany.
See A.J. Karp, Library of Congress Catalogue pp. 31-34; L. Avrin, The Art of the Hebrew Book in the Twentieth Century, in: New York Public Library Catalogue, A Sign and a Witness (1988) p.135.
See also: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-berlin-humash-judaic-treasures
