Ze'ev Raban, sketch in pencil for the tombstone of the author Avraham Aharon Kabak. Signed in pencil and dated 9.8.1945.
The sketch was drawn several months after the passing of Kabak. The plate is divided into two: view of the grave from above and a three dimensional view of the double tombstone for Kabak and his wife. The tomb is designed as a scroll with the inscription:"A.A. Kabak".
The author Aharon Avraham Kabak was born in Belarus in 1881 and emigrated to Eretz Israel in 1911. Won the Bialik Prize in 1943, and died on 18.11.1944. Buried in the Mount of Olives.
37.5X27 cm, framed: 53X40 cm. Good condition, folding marks, pasting, minor creases. Not examined out of frame.

1. Architectural plan for fifteen shops on "Bezalel" plot, architect: Zalman Zelig Axelrod. Jerusalem, 1923. Scale: 1:400. The plan presents the front of the "Bezalel" building with the inscription "Bezalel Yerushalayim", and a drawing of 15 shops on both sides of the plot [present day Shmuel HaNagid street corner of Bezalel pedestrian street]. The shops are seen from the front and from different angles. Architect's signature "Z. Axelrod, Architect Jerusalem Tamuz 27, 1923".
34.5X37 cm, framed 46.5X49.5 cm. Fair condition, folding marks and creases.
2. Architectural plan of "Neve Bezalel" neighborhood, Jerusalem, 1926. A table with numbers and sizes of plots and a map. The neighborhood was planned by Boris Schatz, founder of "Bezalel", who planned to build a neighborhood for artists and workers. He purchased land from the Greek Orthodox Church and this neighborhood was built in the area of present day Narkiss street. Among the original members of the neighborhood were the artists: Mordechai Ardon, Ya'akov Eisenberg, Moshe Muro and Yechye Yemini. For several years the neighborhood existed and functioned as an independent entity.
39X56.5 cm, framed 52.5X70.4 cm. Not examined out of frame. Fair condition, folding marks, holes and creases.

The Pentateuch, one hundred original lithographs, by the artist.
Published by Eretz Israel Association for Artistic Publications Ltd., Jerusalem, [1930]. Hebrew and English.
47 lithographs of illustrations for the Bible by Abel Pann. Accompanied by verses in Hebrew and in English. Signed in the plate and in pencil.
[45] lithographs in a Passe-Partout (size of Passe-Partout: 31X43.5 cm) + [2] lithographs – sheet 39.5X58.5 cm folded into two + [2] leaves (title page and foreword). In a folder bearing the title "Le Bible". Good condition. Damages to folder.

Sheet for preparing a lotto board which features the plants of Eretz Israel, illustrated by Nehemia Bedrechi. Jerusalem: "Bezalel Lithography" press. Ca.1915. Stone engraving.
Eretz-Israeli plants, flowers and fruit are illustrated on the boards. It is possible that the designer, Nehemia Bedrechi, was inspired by the Eretz Israel flowers lotto produced by Shmuel Charuvi, the "flowers artist" and a "Bezalel" teacher, and by the general attitude in "Bezalel" and of early Zionism which focused on establishing a direct connection to the land. Signed on the plate: "N. Bedrechi", produced by "Lithography Bezalel Yerushalem", printed stamps on the margins by Z. Raban, Z. Ravitsky, Miriam Ravitzky and M. Aloni "Kunstschule 'Bezalel' Jerusalem" and Shmuel Ben-David.
33.7X49 cm, framed 38.9X54.5 cm. Not examined out of frame. Good condition, small tear in upper left corner.
See: Bezalel by Schatz, 1906-1929, exhibition catalogue (Jerusalem, 1982), p.209.