WACHSTEIN, BERNHARD. Minchath Shelomoh-Katalog der Salo Cohn’schen Schenkungen

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WACHSTEIN, BERNHARD. Minchath Shelomoh-Katalog der Salo Cohn’schen Schenkungen

FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound in one. With 14 illustrated plates Vol. I: pp. xviii, 215. * Vol. II: pp. xiii, 178. Contemporary marbled boards. Lg. 4to Shunami 189

Vienna: Gilhofer & Ranschburg 1911-14

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $750

Salo Cohn formed this collection from the former libraries of Solomon Joachim Halberstam (one of the founders of the Mekitze Nirdamim Society) and Nachum Be’er Friedmann of Sadigor. These collections were housed as part of the Vienese Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Bibliothek- of which Wachstein was director. Under his leadership the library grew to become one of the richest Judaica collections throughout Europe. It was destroyed following the Nazi Anschluss in 1938.