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June
26, 2001
Important
Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts
Together
With
Fine
Graphic and Ceremonial Art
The
Property of Various Owners Including The
Late Dr. T. Schrire, Cape Town, South Africa
Property
Formerly in the Collection of Gustave Tuck, London (1857-1942)
A
Prominent Collector, South of the Equator
The
W.O Thrift Shop Inc., Sold to Benefit The UJA-Federation of
New York
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The
summer sale featured an unusually large collection of books on an
extensive range of topics. Included were 16th Century Hebraic theological
texts and 20th Century illustrated books by artists including Steinhardt,
Struck, Raskin and Ryback in addition to a broad collection of American
Judaica. A number of objects from the Bezalel School of Jerusalem
were sold as well as various Struck paintings and intriguing posters
of Jewish life and anti semitica.
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Highlights
of the sale included :
(prices
include 15% buyer’s premium) |
- The
First Complete Jewish Prayer-Book Printed in the New World,
According to the Order of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews.
One of The Singular Most Important Printed Books of Jewish
Americana. Sold for: $44,850. Lot 135
- First
Bomberg Edition of Masechta Avodah Zarah [Idolatry]. With
commentaries by Rashi, Tosafoth, etc. 1520. Sold for:
$17,250.
- Notable
sermon preached in London on the public fast day appointed
by King George III to mark the revolt of the American colonies.
London 1777. Sold for: $24,150; twice the high estimate.
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- Die
Zehn Plagen. Ten woodcuts by Jakob Steinhardt. One of twelve
numbered copies on Japon paper. Each signed by artist in
pencil lower right. Sold
for: $3,220.
- A
first edition commentary to former prophets by the reknown
Don Isaac Abarbanel. Pesaro 1511. Sold for: $20,700;
more than four times the high estimate.
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