Auction 31 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Boris Schatz - Monograph and Reproductions in an Elaborate Folder, 1925

Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
Baruch Schatz, his life and work – monograph. Part I (no additional volumes were published). Jerusalem: "B'ne Bezalel", 1925. Printed in Vienna by Union printing press. Booklet with proverbs, a biography and memoirs by Boris Schatz in Hebrew and English (edited and translated by: Mordechai Narkiss). 40 pictures were printed separately, mounted on cardboard, with annotations on the reverse in Hebrew, English, Yiddish and German. The booklet and reproductions are contained in an elaborate leather-like folder with embossed decorations. Portrait, [4], 10-28; [1],35, [1] pp, 40 picture-plates, 40 cm. Good condition. Damages to booklet's leaves, damages to folder.
Bezalel, Art and Art Books, Bibliophilia
Bezalel, Art and Art Books, Bibliophilia