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Auction 6 · Lot 164

Cahun, Léon. La Vie Juive

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

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

author

(LEVY, ALPHONSE)

Place

Paris

Publication

1886

Description

Illustrated throughout by Lévy depicting Jewish ceremonial life of Alsace, includes 5 lithographed plates. Preface by Grand-Rabbin Zadok-Kahn

summary

A most uncommon volume, profusely and charmingly illustrated by Alphonse Levy. Includes numerous images not seen in his later Scenes Familiales Juives (c.1900)
Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards with original highly decorative color-pictorial wrappers bound in
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