Tafereelen uit het Oud-Joodsche Familieleven [“Bilder aus dem Altjüdischen Familien-Leben.”]

AUCTION 66 | Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art

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Lot 304
OPPENHEIM, MORITZ.

Tafereelen uit het Oud-Joodsche Familieleven [“Bilder aus dem Altjüdischen Familien-Leben.”]

Complete set of 20 plates depicting a romanticized view of 18th-century German-Jewish life and custom. Introduction by Rabbi J. Hoofien, text in Dutch. Plates laid onto thick card. Marbled endpapers. Plate captions with penciled English translation, stained in places. Contemporary 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, worn, lacking spine, upper cover detached. Folio.

Frankfurt a/Main & Amsterdam: H. Keller & H. Eisendrath 1882

Est: $800 - $1,200