Cahun, Léon. La Vie Juive

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

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author

(LEVY, ALPHONSE)

Place

Paris

Publication

1886

Description

Illustrated throughout by Lévy depicting Jewish ceremonial life of Alsace. Includes five 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)

Original marbled boards with original highly decorative color-pictorial wrappers, torn and rubbed, internally fine. Folio

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