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Auction 1 · Lot 263

Fritz Bamberger. Das Buch Zunz. * Manfred Sturmann. Die Schoepfung, * Zur Tagung...in Frankfurt am Main (Nathan Soncino’s 1485 Ikarim); and 10 others, similar

Estimate
$300–$400
Hammer price
$220

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(SONCINO GESELLSCHAFT).

printer

E.W. Tieffenbach’s Officina Serpentis

Place

Berlin

Publication

1929-32

Description

Together 13 volumes, etc.

summary

A collection of typophilic mementos and publications (most limited issue) by the Soncino Gesellschaft der Freunde des juedischen Buches, a Berlin-based society of Jewish bibliophiles dedicated to the typographic improvement of Hebrew books Includes offprints of the Soncino-Blaetter, a Society banquet menu, membership information and issues of Mitteilungen. Also, the 1932 8pp. production in Aldus Hebrew type of the 92nd Psalm with the prescient highlighting in red of the verses relating to the ultimate triumph of the righteous and the destruction of the wicked. The Society was forced closed by the Nazis in 1937
Original printed wrappers, 4to and smaller
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