An Important Collection of c. 200 Printed Hebrew Books from 200 towns and cities around the world, each of which is <<the first Hebrew imprint>> of that locale.
AUCTION 79 |
Thursday, November 15th,
2018 at 1:00 PM
The Valmadonna Trust Library: Further Selections from the Historic Collection. * Hebrew Printing in America. * Graphic & Ceremonial Art
Lot 141
(HEBRAICA)
An Important Collection of c. 200 Printed Hebrew Books from 200 towns and cities around the world, each of which is <<the first Hebrew imprint>> of that locale.
18th-20th century
Est: $20,000 - $25,000
PRICE REALIZED $17,000
<<An important collection of books and printed ephemera representing the history of Hebrew printing around the world.>>
This remarkable collection represents books from 36 different countries from across the globe: From China to Kenya, from Uzbekistan to Yemen.
At its heart, the collection includes 100 first Hebrew printings from 100 locations from the heartland of Jewish population centers of pre-Holocaust Europe, that is towns and villages in Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russian and Ukraine.
The collection includes a number of rare, or previously unknown titles, including several not listed in the two major bibliographies of early Hebrew printing, and some that demonstrate the existence of a history of Jewish printing in towns not generally known to have had such a history.
See A. Freimann, A Gazetteer of Hebrew Printing (1946)and Moshe Rosenfeld, Hebrew Printing from its Beginning until 1948 (1992).
Goldman List of Countries.
Algeria - 1.
Australia -1.
Austria - 1.
Bulgaria - 2.
Canada - 1.
China - 1.
Czech Rep. 2.
Egypt - 1.
England - 2F.
France - 5.
Germany 42.
Greece - 1.
Holland - 2.
Hungary - 33.
India - 2.
Ireland - 1.
Israel - 2.
Italy - 4.
Kenya - 1.
Latvia - 2.
Lithuania - 6.
Morocco - 2.
Norway - 1.
Poland - 37.
Portugal - 1.
Romania - 8.
Russia - 9.
Slovenia - 1.
South Africa - 1.
Switzerland - 1.
Syria - 1.
Ukraine - 11.
USA - 5.
Uzbekistan - 2 .
Wales - 1.
Yemen - 1.