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Auction 27 · Lot 315
MENDELSSOHN, MOSES.
- Estimate
- $5,000–$7,000
- Hammer price
- $6,500
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
Berlin
Publication
1784
Description
(Celebrated Philosopher of the German Enlightenment. 1729-1786). Autograph Letter Signed "Hakatan Moshe Dessau," in Hebrew and Judaeo-German, to the communal leader and businessman R. Elchanan, concerning Mendelssohn’s future son-in-law Mendel Mayer, the son of “my very special...beloved friend, R. Nathan Katz, Court Agent of Strelitz.”
references
See A. Altman, Moses Mendelssohn (1973) pp.724-25
summary
Contains first impressions of the characteristics and talents of Moses Mendelssohn’s future son-in-law.
His daughter, Reikel (Recha), was seventeen when she married Mayer in 1785.“They are both good children.” Although Mendelssohn questions Mendel Mayer’s ability to undertake and administer a major business ,”he is not without talents outside business...”
Mendelssohn’s autographed letters seldom appear at auction. It is particularly uncommon to find an example of his writings in Hebrew. For another letter to the same correspondent, see Kestenbaum & Company, Sale XV, Lot 483
Single leaf. Slight tear in margin of upper right corner not affectng text. 4to
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