Gallerie der Ausgezeichnetsten Israeliten aller Jahrhunderte, ihre Portraits und Biographien

Estimate: $1,200–$1,800
Hammer price: $1,000

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author

BREZA, EUGEN GRAFEN and RICHARD OTTO SPAZIER (Eds. And later N. Frankfurter and Berthold Auerbach).

printer

Brodhag’sche Buchhandlung

Place

Stuttgart

Publication

1834-36

Description

Two volumes bound in one. 17 lithograph portraits Sefo

references

Freimann 47; unlisted by BMC

summary

“A Gallery of Outstanding Jews,” an eclectic mix of luminaries of (mostly) German-Jewish achievement. Including: Moses Mendelsohn, Abraham Furtado, Abraham Stern, Jonathan Eybeschutz, Julius Hitzig, Eduard Gans, Benedict de Spinoza, David Friedlaender, Heinrich Heine, Rachel Varnhagen von Ense, Gabriel Riesser, Israel Jacobson, Michael Beer, Gotthold Salomon and others. Unknown to Rubens, Jewish Iconography

ff.126 and 43 (plates unnumbered).Browned and foxed

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