(BIRNBAUM, MENACHEM). Chad Gadjo.

AUCTION 17 | Tuesday, November 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic and Ceremonial Art From Various Owners

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Lot 177

(HAGADAH).

(BIRNBAUM, MENACHEM). Chad Gadjo.

Ten dramatic hand-colored plates by Birnbaum, with hand-colored end-papers, title-borders and fore-edges. Hebrew with German translation prepared by the artist’s son Uriel Birnbaum. Original pictorial hand-colored boards with ties. Lg. 4to Yudlov 2713

Berlin: Welt-Berlag 1920

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,300

A fine copy of a “most chilling bibliophilic book.” See A.J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth, Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress (1991) pp.128-30 (illustrated)