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Welcome to our Spring K2 Judaica Auction (Kestenbaum Sale number 93) consisting of 226 lots. The subject matter of the auction is divided as follows:
Manuscripts: Lots 1-21
Including ten lots of Pinkas community records (all American), Lots 12-21
Autograph Letters by Rabbinic & Chassidic leaders: Lots 22-77
Americana - Printed Books, Manuscripts & Autograph Letters: Lots 78-96.
Cook-Books (Lots 107-123)
Holocaust-era (Lots 132-151)
Land (and State) of Israel: Lots 152-169
Graphic Art: Lots 188-209.
Including artwork by Yohanan Simon, Chagall, Pilichowski, Abel Pann and Reuven Rubin. Also a magnificent livre-d'artiste by Joseph Budko, issued entirely on vellum, one of just five copies (lot 188)
Ceremonial and Folk Objects: Lots 210-226
Included in the auction are items that relate to Jewish history in: Argentina, Belgium, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Russia and Spain.
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LOT 105:
(CALLIGRAPHY).
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Sold for: $2,000
Estimated price :
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1,500 - $2,500
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sales tax: 8.875%
On the full lot's price and commission
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(CALLIGRAPHY).
Giuseppe Vigevano. Nisayon Ktav Lashon HaKodesh - Saggio di Caratteri Ebraici. [“Student’s Guide to Hebrew Calligraphy.”]
Two parts: Theory, followed by twelve full-page elaborate copper engravings (by F. Pirani) displaying examples of Hebrew fonts. Rabbinic approbations. Text in Italian and Hebrew.
ff. (2). cols. 24, (f. 1), ff. 12. Trace stained. Modern gilt-tooled maroon calf. Oblong folio. Solander-case.
Mantua: (Anania Coen) 1824
The first study on Hebrew calligraphy. The plates here begin with the radicals and progress through rabbinic, scriptural and cursive texts; with alphabet and sample for each on separate plates, finishing with plates devoted to punctuation, numbers, the names of the months, and a final tour-de-force. The plates throughout are executed with great variation of tone provided by shading. Each is surrounded by flourishes and many includes symbolic animals. This work emerged at the dawn of the modernization of Hebrew into a living language. With the rise of secular nationalism, increased attention was given towards the viability of the Hebrew language to serve all strata of the Jewish people, as opposed to the more familiar lingua franca of Yiddish. For the past few centuries, Hebrew had been used in a rabbinic form, and was not readily accessible to those with lesser education. The efforts to formally educate children in its structure and grammar marks a turning point in the revivification of the language. (See EJ vol. V, 64).
