Chad Gadjo

AUCTION 22 | Tuesday, January 27th, 2004 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art Including Holy Land Maps, Illustrated Books, Photography and Graphic Art from The Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg of Greenwich, Conn

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Lot 164

zz (BIRNBAUM, MENACHEM).

Chad Gadjo

Ten dramatic hand-colored plates by Birnbaum. Hand-colored end-papers, title-borders and fore-edges. Hebrew with German translation prepared by the artist’s son Uriel Birnbaum. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST Original pictorial hand-colored boards with ties, upper cover loose. Lg. 4to

Berlin, : Welt-Verlag, 1920

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $3,250

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)