Scènes Familiales Juives

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $600

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

author

LEVY, ALPHONSE.

Place

Paris

Publication

c.1900

Description

Frontispiece and 21 charming plates of Alsatian Jewish life and custom, each captioned in French and (pidgin!)-Yiddish. Preface by Bernard Lazare. Five pages of notes by the artist about the images at end

references

Not in Rubens

summary

Delightful views of traditional Jewish rural life in the Alsace of the 19th century.

Browned, few small tears, endpapers creased. Contemporary boards with original pictorial wrappers bound in. Folio.

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