The present catalogue includes an extensive chapter dedicated to Bezalel artists, including illustrated books, various objects, drawing and paintings. This chapter features numerous original sketches for works by Ze'ev Raban - Raban's sketchbook (lot 318), sketches for illustrations to the Song of Songs (lot 320), sketches of the signs of the Zodiac (lot 327), a large collection of photographs of works by Raban and Meir Gur Aryeh (lot 344), and many other unique items from the estate of Shlomo Kedmi, who succeeded Raban and Gur Aryeh in the Industrial Art Studio.
The chapter dedicated to Hebrew children's books features charming works by prominent writers and illustrators: stories by Benzion Raskin illustrated by Uriel Kahana, Chaim Hanft and Haim Goldberg; poems by Itzhak Katzenelson illustrated by Gertrud Caspari; rhymes by Ya'akov David Kamson illustrated by Else Wenz-Viëtor; children's book published by "Omanut", with color lithograph illustrations by "Chavurat Tsayarim" (Apter, Mutzelmacher, Kravtsov and Higer); pop-up books illustrated by David Gilboa; and other rare books.
The avant-garde chapter features Yiiddish, Hebrew and Russian books, with illustrations and cover-designs by important Russian avant-garde artists such as El Lissitzky, Joseph Chaikov, Issachar Ber Ryback, Mark Epstein and Nathan Altman.
The catalogue further features a variety of choice items representing the history of Palestine and Zionism, bibliophile works, letters, travelogues and maps of Palestine, photographs, postcards, rare Ladino periodicals, works by Safed-based artist Yosef Zvi Geiger, bibliophile works, a chapter dedicated to numismatics, and many more items.
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LOTE 304:
A Book from the Private Library of Leah Goldberg, bearing her Own Drawing ("Ex Libris")
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A Book from the Private Library of Leah Goldberg, bearing her Own Drawing ("Ex Libris")
Les amours de Psyché et de Cupidon ["The Love of Cupid and Psyche"] by Apuleius. Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot, 1880 (date on the cover: 1881). French. Copy with a large bookplate drawing by Leah Goldberg.
French translation of the story "Cupid and Psyche, " a chapter from the novel "The Golden Ass" by Roman author Lucius Apuleius. Accompanied by 32 plates of prints after paintings by Raphael, signed in the plate "C. Normand" (Charles Pierre Joseph Normand?).
The present copy has been re-bound, with new endpapers (with the original cover mounted onto the new one). Ink drawing by poet Leah Goldberg on front endpaper; on the right, a woman (self-portrait of Goldberg?) is seen holding a sign reading "Lea Goldberg." The words "Ex Libris" appear at the top of the illustration.
[37] pp. + 32 plates, approx. 32 cm. Fair condition. Stains and an open tear to margins of endpaper with Goldberg's drawing, and strips of paper glued to same endpaper (none of this affecting drawing). Minor tears to edges of leaves. Large open tears to original back cover. Inked stamps on back endpaper.
This edition of the book is not listed in OCLC.
Provenance: The Tuvya Ruebner Collection.
