"Jüdischer Plutarch" – Biographic Lexicon of Men and Women of Jewish Origin – Vienna, 1848 – Lithograph of Rachel Felix

Jüdischer Plutarch; oder biographisches Lexicon der markantesten Männer und Frauen jüdischer Abkunft [Jewish Plutarch or Biographic Lexicon of Important Men and Women of Jewish Origin], by Franz Gräffer and Simon Deutsch. Vienna: Ulrich Klopf sen. und Alexander Eurich, 1848. Volume A (of two volumes). German.
A biographic lexicon of important Jewish men and women, including Rabbi Yitzchak ben Yehuda Abravanel, Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi), the Jewish-German author Berthold Auerbach, the composer Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, the German author Rachel Varnhagen, the French actress Rachel Felix, the banker Anschel Rothschild and others.
Frontispiece lithograph – a portrait of the French actress Rachel Felix (known by her stage-name "Mademoiselle Rachel", 1821-1858).
[4], 258 pp + [1] lithograph, 17 cm. Good condition. A few stains. Hard binding to which is mounted a paper cover. Stains and minor blemishes to binding.