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 26:
"Economic Atlas of Palestine" – Davis Trietsch – Berlin, 1926 – Original Portfolio
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"Economic Atlas of Palestine" – Davis Trietsch – Berlin, 1926 – Original Portfolio
Palästina Wirtschaftsatlas [Economic Atlas of Palestine] edited by Davis Trietsch. "Second, expanded edition". Berlin: Orient, [1926]. German.
Thirty color-printed plates (four of them folding) comprising a variety of maps and charts providing much information about Palestine and its Jewish population: the historical borders of Palestine, concentration of population, population density and growth, employment, immigration, industry, import and export, and more. Complete copy (with list of plates), in the original portfolio.
Nine of the plates were also included in Trietsch's "Atlas of the Jewish World" (see next lot).
David (Davis) Trietsch (1870-1935), editor, writer and Zionist activist, born in Germany, member of the Zionist General Council and of the democratic faction in the World Zionist Organization (an oppositional faction in the Zionist Organization which introduced an alternative to Herzl's ideas). He was coeditor of the journals Ost und West and Palästina, authored the annual Palästina Handbuch and was one of the founders of the Jüdischer Verlag publishing house.
Trietsch dedicated a considerable part of his time to the question of Jewish settlement. In the 1890s, he conceived the idea of settling Jews in Cyprus, and subsequently promoted the settlement in Cyprus as an alternative to the 1903 Uganda Scheme (a proposal he vehemently opposed). Trietsch later supported the Jewish emigration to Palestine, and suggested planned commercial and industrial development of the country and the establishment of garden cities. This atlas was published as part of his efforts to promote the settlement in Palestine. Trietsch himself settled in Palestine in 1932.
[1] f. (list of plates), [30] loose plates. Approx. 25X38 cm to 38X75 cm. Good condition. Marginal creases. Minor stains. Minor tears to edges of some plates. Stains and tears to portfolio.
