Bondi, Emanuel. Maslul HaLimmud / Illustrirtes Lehr und Lesebuch für die Jugend ["Illustrated Reading Book for the Young"]

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

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author

(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE)

printer

M. Landau

Place

Prague

Publication

1847

Description

* Bound with: Kurze Anweisung zum Böhmisch-Lesen...für die Jugend [Czech reading book]. pp. 12. Engraved pictorial title. Replete with engravings including plates of calligraphy. German, Hebrew, Judeo-German (in wayber-taytsch letters) and Czech

references

Vinograd, Prague 1443 (no copy in JNUL)

summary

This primer reflects the complexity of life in the Czech capital. A Jewish child growing up in mid-19th century Prague would need to be conversant in four languages: German, Hebrew, Yiddish and Czech. A rare first edition. Vinograd located just one copy, in the Gross Collection, Tel Aviv. See D. Rappel: Dor Ledor -Studies in the History of Jewish Education in Israel and the Disaspora. (Tel Aviv, 1995) where only later editions are noted (p. 17, no. 93)

pp. (4), 45, (2); (4), 103. Foxed. Original marbled boards, needs rebinding. 8vo

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