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 12:
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Estimated price :
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Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
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(BINDING).
Seder HaTephiloth [prayers for the entire year]. Translation into Judeo-German.
* With: Seder Tehilim and Seder Techinoth [supplications].
Historiated engraved title page depicting traditional commandments of the Jewish woman, here shown in 18th-century Dutch-Jewish attire. Two divisional titles within typographic borders for Psalms and Techinoth. Headpieces and tailpieces.
Bound in: Attractive contemporary hunter lacquered calf, two handsome engraved silver clasps with collinade-form hinges and four silver corner pieces all engraved with floral motifs. Gauffred edges.
ff. (3), 315, (1), 92. Lightly browned and stained in places. 4to.
Vinograd, Amsterdam 801.
Amsterdam Moses Mendes Coutinho 1705.
A “Weibertefille, ” a Prayer-book intended especially for women.
The striking original engraved title-page depicts the three duties of the Jewish Married Woman: the taking of Challah; kindling the Sabbath candles and observance of Family Purity (see Mishnah, Shabbath, Chap. II).
Illustrated in M.H. Gans, Memorbook: History of Dutch Jewry (1971) p. 185, no. 7; and A.M. Habermann, Title Pages of Hebrew Books (1969) pl. 83.
