Online Auction 010 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Three Books with Woodcuts for the Bible/New Testament – 1962-1995

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Three books with woodcuts for the Bible and the New Testament:
* Genesis. Zurcher Ubersetzung mit einer Borrded von Johannes Calvin, 1563. Berlin: Kathe Vogt, 1962. German.
The book of Genesis translated into German and accompanied by 25 woodcuts in color by Carl-Heinz Kliemann. More woodcuts in black and white appear within the text. A foreword by the French theologian Jean Calvin. Numbered copy 48/2000, signed by the artist, in pencil, on the title page.
55 leaves, 29 cm. Good condition. Inserted in a cardboard slipcase.
* Bernard Salomon, peintre et tailleur d'histoires. Illustrations pour l'Ancien Testament. Geneve: Editions de l'Institut d'histoire de l'art du Moyen Age, 1969. French and Latin.
248 woodcuts by Bernard Salomon depicting biblical scenes accompanied by verses in French and Latin. Numbered copy 221/400. An additional book is enclosed – portfolio with 40 woodcut-plates, prints of some of the woodcuts which appear in the book. Both books are bound together in a fine vellum binding.
XIII, [2], 316, [1] pp; [40] print-plates, 21 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Both books are inserted in a cardboard slipcase.
* Die Bibel. Gesamtausgabe in der Einheitsübersetzung mit Holzschnitten von Walter Habdank. Published by Augsburg Pattloch, Germany, 1955. German.
Chapters from the Bible and from the New Testament translated into German and accompanied by 90 woodcut-plates in color and in black and white by Walter Habdank, and a dozen illustrated maps of Eretz Israel, Jerusalem and the Middle East.
1434, [1] pp + [90] woodcut-plates, 24 cm. Good condition. Cardboard slipcase.
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