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 23:
(CEREMONIES).
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Start price:
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2,500
Estimated price :
$2,500 - $3,500
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
On the full lot's price and commission
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(CEREMONIES).
Birchath Hamazon - Dos Benshen [compendium of selected prayers and festive rites]. According to the custom of Poland and Germany.
Woodcut Illustrations. Title and many initial letters historiated. With Judeo-German translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type.
ff. 47 (i.e. 48). Lightly browned, thumbed in places, lower portion of f.13 supplied in facsimile. Later vellum. 4to.
Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 465.
Frankfurt a/Main, Shlomo Zalman Apterod & Moshe Gamburg, 1727.
Compendium including Grace after Meals, Sabbath hymns, prayers before retiring, birth, marriage and death services, concluding with an Hagadah for Passover.
These Frankfurt 'Minhagim-style' illustrations are notably different from the Amsterdam mold. Primitively wrought, they carry a rather striking angularity in their starkness.
