Scènes Familiales Juives

AUCTION 57 | Thursday, January 31st, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 230

LEVY, ALPHONSE.

Scènes Familiales Juives

Frontispiece and 21 charming plates of Alsatian Jewish life and custom, each captioned in French and (pidgin!)-Yiddish. Preface by Bernard Lazare. Five pages of notes by the artist about the images at end Browned, few small tears, endpapers creased. Contemporary boards with original pictorial wrappers bound in. Folio. Not in Rubens

Paris: c.1900

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $600

Delightful views of traditional Jewish rural life in the Alsace of the 19th century.