Scènes Familiales Juives

AUCTION 64 | Thursday, March 19th, 2015 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects, Maps and Graphic Art

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Lot 198
LEVY, ALPHONSE.

Scènes Familiales Juives

Frontispiece and 21 charming plates of 19th-century rural Alsatian Jewish life and custom, each captioned in French and (pidgin!)-Yiddish. Preface by Bernard Lazare. Five pages of notes at the end by the artist concerning the images. Modern boards with original pictorial wrappers laid down and bound in. Several leaves silked or laid down Folio.

Paris: c. 1900

Est: $500 - $700