(HUNGARY)

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 617

(HUNGARY)

OSE Aranykönyve (Cover title). Jewish Institutional Album recording donations by parents commemorating the birth of their children. Thirty-four exceptional illuminated pages. Each page recording in Hebrew and Hungarian, the names of the donor and other pertinent details, amidst skillfully decorated borders. Each page individually executed, in gilt and colors. Opening two leaves with nursing mother, and rather plump smiling toddler pp.36 (excluding blanks). Original boards, worn. Sm.folio

Satu-Mare: 1945-48

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

Most surprising and artistically pleasing manuscript, accomplished in the years immediately following the War