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November
14, 1996
Fine
Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art
A Distinguished Collection of Early Printed Hebrew Books, Part
I,
and
The Property of the Late Leyzer Ran
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The
Company's inaugural sale consisted of 399 lots. Results (including
buyer's premium) of selected lots offered included:
- The first
Hagadah printed in London, 1770, which brought $12,650
- An illustrated
manuscript on the rites of circumcision, (Germany 1820) that tripled
its estimate to sell for $14,950
- A Yiddish
Eye-Test Chart printed on cloth (American, early 20th century)
that sold for $8,050
- Esther Levy's
Jewish Cookery Book, the first Jewish Cook Book printed in America,
sold for $2,875
- An interesting
collection of postcards, catalogued in nine lots, fetched an impressive
$28,250
- A most uncommon
brass Vase produced by the Bezalel School of Art (Jerusalem c.
1920) reached $8,800.
In
his review of the auction, Nicolas Barker commented, "It was a promising
beginning..." (The Book Collector, Spring 1997).
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Yiddish Eye-Test
Chart, American, late 19th,
early 20th century sold for $8,050.
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