CARAN D’ACHE. Carnet de Chèques [“Book of Checks”-satirical anti-Semitic caricatures]

AUCTION 16 | Tuesday, June 25th, 2002 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

Back to Catalogue

<Previous Lot

/275

Next Lot>

Lot 85

(DREYFUS AFFAIR).

CARAN D’ACHE. Carnet de Chèques [“Book of Checks”-satirical anti-Semitic caricatures]

Album of photomechanical print illustrations ff. (24). Few light stains in places. Original cloth backed marbled boards with original printed wrapper tipped to upper cover, gently rubbed at extremities. Elongated 16mo (12.5 x 28cm).

Paris: E. Plon n.d.

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $500

Satirical caricatures depicting Jewish financiers by the anti-Semitic and anti-Dreyfusard French comic artist Caran D’Ache. “We are pleased to present before the Public eye these famous checks reconstituted at the cost of some pain...”