Auction of Judaica. Including a large offering of Americana from a distinguished Private Collection. Focusing on Jews in the American Civil War, featuring photographs, autograph letters and printed books.
Judaica books and manuscripts (non-Hebraic) are offered next.
This includes two important letters from the United States regarding Edgardo Mortara (Lot 31); an exceptionally rare E.M. Lilien livre-de-artiste (Lot 150); an impressive 18th-century plate-book featuring the Holy Land (Lot 156); a recently discovered illustrated letter by Arthur Szyk (Lot 199).
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The final portion of the auction includes a wide selection of Jewish Graphic Arts, many formerly in the collection of the late Peter Ehrenthal; and Ceremonial Objects from a distinguished four-generation collection.
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LOT 152:
(MEDICINE).
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Start price:
$
800
Estimated price :
$1,000 - $1,500
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
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(MEDICINE).
ZACHARIAS WERTHEIM. Lithograph by Gabriel / Georg Decker.
Issued to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his becoming a medical doctor.
Lightly stained, creased. 14 x 20 inches.
Vienna 1852.
Author of the Viennese medical topography “Versuch einer medicinischen Topographie von Wien” (1810), Zacharias Wertheim (1780-1852) was the fifth generation of his family to have been born in Vienna. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in medicine in 1802 as a student of Johann Peter Frank (1745-1821). In 1816 Wertheim was appointed primary physician at the Jewish Hospital in Vienna, later serving as its director until his death.
See https://ub.meduniwien.ac.at/blog/? p=27749.
