Large, Quality Collection of Bookplates – Europe, USA and Palestine

Large, Quality Collection of Bookplates – Europe, USA and Palestine
Large, quality collection of bookplates. Europe, USA and Palestine, the 20th century (dozens of earlier bookplates).
The collection contains approx. 1800 bookplates, most of them designed by artists, and many of them prints, woodcuts and engravings. Including bookplates made by E.M. Lilien, Hermann Struck, Ilya Schor, Perec Willenberg, Jacob Stark, Joseph Budko, Moshe Sterenshuss, Ruth Tzarfati and many others. A number of bookplates were designed by Leonid Kuris.
The collection includes bookplates made for Martin Buber, Heinrich Loewe, Otto Warburg, Max Brod, Gershom Scholem, Avraham Shalom Yehuda, Simcha Asaf, and others; universities, public institutions and libraries – the Hebrew University, The Weizmann Institute of Science, the Technion, the Jewish National and University Library (now the National Library of Israel), the Ben Zvi Institute (Yad Ben Zvi), the Israel Museum, and more; hundreds of bookplates of community libraries, synagogue libraries, school libraries and more, from Jewish communities all over the USA, Canada and elsewhere; and other bookplates. In addition, the collection contains several large sub-collections of bookplates made by various artists for the libraries of bookplate collectors, including Raphael Grunzweig, Toivo Asikainen, Dr. Hermann Wiese and Mario de Filippis. Numerous duplicate copies.
Enclosed: • Exhibition catalogue "Bookplates of the Collection of Raphael Grunzweig" (Hebrew). Ra'anana: Raphael Grunzweig and the Ra'anana Municipality, Department of Culture, 1995. • List of exhibits of the exhibition "Leonid Kuris, Ex-Libris Exhibition" (Hebrew), held at the Tel Aviv University, the Sourasky Central Library. Tel Aviv, 1994. • Advertising posters of both exhibitions.
Size and condition vary. Good to fair condition. Many of the bookplates are mounted to paper leaves with tape.
Provenance: The Raphael Grunzweig Collection.