Lot 403
Two Volumes of the "Bethlehem" Almanac Edited by Ignaz Reich - Budapest, 1871-1873 - Portraits of Jewish-Hungarian Personalities
Beth-Lechem, Jahrbuch zur Befoerderung des Ackerbaues, Handwerks und der Industrie unter den Israeliten Ungarns [Bethlehem, a yearbook for the advancement of agriculture, trade, and industry among Hungarian Jews], by Ignaz Reich. Pest and Budapest: Athenäum, 1871-1873. Two volumes. Hungarian and some Hebrew and Aramaic.
Two almanacs containing poems, excerpts from Jewish sources and numerous essays on agriculture and industry in Hungary, as well as portrait plates of Jewish-Hungarian personalities.
1871 almanac: VIII, [2], 239, [1] pp + [3] plates. 1873 almanac: [3], 285, [3] pp + [2] plates. 21.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. In the first volume, ink stamps on inner side of the front binding and on the title page. Damage to bindings.