The Holy Bible - Chamishah Chumshei Torah.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $800

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

author

(HOLOCAUST).

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Vaad Hatzala

Place

Munich

Publication

1947

Description

Colored title page. Dedicatory pages in Hebrew and English, superimposed over colored Stars and Stripes, dedicating the volume to President Harry S. Truman. Presentation copy to: The Hon. Trygve Lie inscribed in gilt on upper cover.

summary

An importatn religious text issued by the American Vaad Hatzala Rescue Committee for the benefit of the survivors of the Nazi Holocaust (She’erit Hapleita). This custom-bound copy prepared for the Norwegian politican Trygve Halvdan Lie (1896-1968), the first Secretary-General of the United Nations. See A.J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures from the Library of Congress (1991) p. 34 (illustrated).

pp. 120, 199, 194. Original gilt-tooled chestnut calf. 8vo.

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