Fac-Similes of the Hebrew Manuscripts Obtained at the Jewish Synagogue in K’ae-Fung-Foo

AUCTION 7 | Tuesday, June 22nd, 1999 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 355

(CHINA)

Fac-Similes of the Hebrew Manuscripts Obtained at the Jewish Synagogue in K’ae-Fung-Foo

ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES ff.(76). Opening three leaves remargined, final leaf laid down, dampstained. Modern half-calf. 4to

Shanghai: London Missionary’s Society Press 1851

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

PRICE REALIZED $6,000

Highly unusual wood-blocks on rice paper of sections from most distinctive Torah Scrolls purchased in 1850 from the Jews of Kaifeng Fu. See Diaspora Museum Catalogue, The Jews of Kaifeng (1984) p.32 (illustrated); D.A. Leventhal, Sino-Judaic Studies; A Bibliography (1985) p.39; see also J. Preuss, The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng-Fu (1961)