1. Sehok ha-Shakh, Joseph Yehudah Leib Zassnicz. Vilna, 1879. "explaining his tactics by the general rules and their details… strategy and maneuvers…". Hebrew.
102, VII leaves. Fair condition. Foxing, folding board missing.
2. Delices Royales ou Le Jeu Des Echecs, Leon Hollaenderski. Paris, 1864. History of the chess game and its principles, with excerpts from writings of Rabbi Abraham Iben- Ezra and Rabbi [Gedaliah] Iben-Yachye. French.
[14], 68, [4] leaves, 19 cm. Good condition. Foxing.

Game board [settlements in Israel lotto game?]. Colored lithograph print, Benjamin Barlevy Publishing, Tel Aviv, early 1950's.
The board depicts pictures of the settlements of Chomah and Migdal, communal settlements (kibbutzim) and towns, water-towers, factories etc. alongside illustrations of antique coins.
69.5x50 cm. Fair condition. Stained, fold-line along center of board, professionally restored damage.
Does not appear in "Journey through the Land – games from the store of Mr. Barlevy" (David Tartakover), published by the Israel Museum, 1999.

Literarischer blumen-flirt – Fortune. Amigo Publishing, Vilna, 1921.
50 playing cards, names of several flowers are printed on each card alongside sentences alluding to the name of the flower (the sentences are taken in part from writings of celebrated European writers and Yiddish authors, as described on back of pack). The players have to identify the flower in question, aided by its definition (jasmine, daffodil, tulip, orchid etc.). Rules of play are on the first card. Yiddish.
[1], 50 playing cards in their original packaging, 13.5 cm. The cards are in good condition, packaging in poor condition.

Sculpture of a Jewish boy (Yemenite) sitting with folded legs, holding a book. Signed on the side: "Ze'ev Ben Zvi 1929". White ceramic painted black.
Sculptor Ze'ev Ben Zvi (Koyavsky, 1904-1952), Jewish artist born in Poland. In 1920-1923 studied painting in the school of arts in Warsaw. Made aliyah to Eretz Yisrael in 1923 and studied in "Bezalel" until 1925 with the guidance of Boris Schatz. In 1928 went to study in France where he was exposed to cubist art of Picasso and George Braque: in the following years created many realistic portraits (protomes) in a half-cubist style (amongst them Bialik, Tchernichovsky, Dizengof, Shemaryahu Levine, Aharon Meskin and others). Established a sculpting and copper-hammering workshop in the retention camps in Cyprus with the artist Naftali Bezem; since 1949 served as a teacher in "The New Bezalel" (David Palombo was one of his students). His works were exhibited in exhibitions in Israel and abroad.
The sculpture in front of us is of the period prior to his typical cubist creation.
"He totally mastered the material, easily solved problems and shaped the creation, which floated before his eyes since he had a remarkable plastic ability…". (Gavriel Talpir).
Height: 24 cm, maximum width: 34 cm. Good condition. Minor damages.

Yochanan Simon, illustration of pruned tree trunk with birds above it. Beneath the illustration: two strips depicting laborers: shepherd, driver, builder and more.
16.5x15 cm.; 2 strips 16x2.5 cm. Good condition. Pasted to paper. Slightly stained and creased.