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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LOT 5:
Issue of The Times – November 1917 – First Press Publication of the Balfour Declaration
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Issue of The Times – November 1917 – First Press Publication of the Balfour Declaration
Issue of The Times. London, November 9, 1917 (Late War Edition). English.
On page 7, beneath the headline "Palestine for the Jews – Official Sympathy", appears the Balfour Declaration, as it was sent by the British foreign secretary, Arthur James Balfour, in a letter to baron Lionel Walter Rothschild (1869-1937). The same page features an article entitled "The British Victory in Palestine", reporting on the British military campaign in Palestine, led by Edmund Allenby. Additional articles report on the October Revolution, which broke out in Russia two days previously.
In some copies of The Times issued the same day, the same article is entitled "Government Pledge" (see: Kedem, Catalog No. 021, item No. 51).
The Balfour Declaration, according to which, Great Britain intends to support "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people", was signed by Arthur James Balfour on November 2, 1917, following Chaim Weizmann's insistent lobbying. One week later, on November 9, the declaration was first made public in the media, and was presently considered an unprecedented achievement for the Zionist movement, and a significant step towards the establishment of a Jewish state.
14 pp., approx. 60 cm. Good condition. Fold lines. Minor creases. Marginal tears. Tape to spine.
