Stassof, Vladimir and Günzburg, Baron David. L’Ornement Hebreu.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,700

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

author

(JEWISH ART)

printer

Karl W. Hiersemann

Place

Leipzig

Publication

1905 (i.e. 1919)

Description

26 color plates (complete), 13 page text.

references

cf. Mayer 2515

summary

Reproducing ornaments from mediaeval Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, mainly from the Firkovitch Collection in St. Petersburg. Baron Günzberg (1857-1910) assembled one of the largest and most significant collections of Hebrew books and manuscripts in the world (presently housed in the Russian State Library, Moscow)

Loose as issued in original patterned printed cloth portfolio, worn

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