Bondi, Emanuel. Maslul HaLimmud / Illustrirtes Lehr und Lesebuch für die Jugend ["Illustrated Reading Book for the Young"]

AUCTION 47 | Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Bondi, Emanuel. Maslul HaLimmud / Illustrirtes Lehr und Lesebuch für die Jugend ["Illustrated Reading Book for the Young"]

* Bound with: Kurze Anweisung zum Böhmisch-Lesen...für die Jugend [Czech reading book]. pp. 12. Engraved pictorial title. Replete with engravings including plates of calligraphy. German, Hebrew, Judeo-German (in wayber-taytsch letters) and Czech pp. (4), 45, (2); (4), 103. Foxed. Original marbled boards, needs rebinding. 8vo Vinograd, Prague 1443 (no copy in JNUL)

Prague: M. Landau 1847

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $800

This primer reflects the complexity of life in the Czech capital. A Jewish child growing up in mid-19th century Prague would need to be conversant in four languages: German, Hebrew, Yiddish and Czech. A rare first edition. Vinograd located just one copy, in the Gross Collection, Tel Aviv. See D. Rappel: Dor Ledor -Studies in the History of Jewish Education in Israel and the Disaspora. (Tel Aviv, 1995) where only later editions are noted (p. 17, no. 93)