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Auction 64 · Lot 198

Scènes Familiales Juives

Estimate
$500–$700
Hammer price
Not recorded

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 19th-century rural Alsatian Jewish life and custom, each captioned in French and (pidgin!)-Yiddish. Preface by Bernard Lazare. Five pages of notes at the end by the artist concerning the images.
Modern boards with original pictorial wrappers laid down and bound in. Several leaves silked or laid down Folio.
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