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STRIKING ORIGINAL PAINTING, “WAR ORPHANS” BY ARTHUR SZYK
SZYK, Arthur. War Orphans. London, 1940. Extraordinary signed original watercolor and gouache painting of two young Jewish refugees, huddled together, by anti-Nazi caricaturist Arthur Szyk, whose wartime portrayals of brutality, heroism and suffering strongly influenced American attitudes toward the war effort. $35,000.
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EXTRAORDINARY ARCHIVE OF NEARLY 400 ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS
DEPICTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL
(ISRAEL). Photograph Collection. Israel. No place, circa 1912-51. Extraordinary archive of almost 400 original press photographs (most 8 by 10 inches) depicting Jewish immigration to Palestine during the early 1940s, World War II Palestine, the bloody battles of the War of Independence, and Israeli settlers following World War II. Every photograph is accompanied by its original press description, attached when originally taken. $29,000.
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“AND SO WE SAW THE WAY OF THE ENTIRE NATION, NOT AS IT IS BUT HOW IT SHOULD BE”
BEN-GURION, David. Autograph speech draft. No place, 1965. Original three-page autograph speech draft, entirely hand-written by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in Hebrew, in which he reflects upon the history and meaning of the state of Israel and his political beliefs. $18,500.
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FROM YELLOW STAR TO FULL EMANCIPATION, 1602-1859: SUPERB COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL ITALIAN GOVERNMENTAL DECREES
(JUDAICA—ITALIAN). Collection of seven decrees relating to the Jews of Modena, Italy. Modena, Italy, 1602-1859. Superb collection of official governmental decrees charting the history of the Jewish community of Modena, in north-central Italy, from the stigma of wearing a yellow mark in 1602, to the grant of full emancipation in 1859. $18,000.
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EXTENSIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE WITH NINE LETTERS, SIGNED BY ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER MENACHEM BEGIN
BEGIN, Menachem. Archive of signed photographs and typed letters signed relating to Menachem Begin. No place, 1965-77. Original archive of photographs centering on the historic Camp David Accords, over 30 of which are signed by Menachem Begin, with a number of them additionally signed by Ezer Weizmann, Israel’s future President, or Ariel Sharon, future Prime Minister. Together with a collection of nine typed letters signed by Begin to famed Nazi hunter Tuvia Friedman discussing such important events as the Munich massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes in 1972 and the capture of Adolf Eichmann. $17,500.
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JERUSALEM WINDOWS, BOLDLY INSCRIBED BY CHAGALL, WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING
CHAGALL, Marc. Vitraux pour Jerusalem. Monte Carlo, 1962. First French edition of Chagall’s Jerusalem Windows, with two original full-color lithographs especially prepared by Chagall for this edition, and with a bold presentation inscription on the fly leaves, signed and dated “Marc Chagall, I/XI 1962,” accompanied by a lovely full-page original drawing of an olive branch held above housetops, all in the year of publication. $16,000.
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STUNNING 15TH-CENTURY ILLUMINATED LEAF
(ILLUMINATED LEAF). Illuminated Manuscript Leaf. France, circa 1450. Original medieval illuminated leaf from a French Book of Hours in Latin, with a miniature showing Saint Nicholas raising three schoolboys from the dead, with a beautiful four-line initial letter “H” executed in red against a gold-leaf background, with intricate leaf-and-tendril designs extending throughout the margins. $13,800.
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“REDESIGNING THE SHAPE OF HISTORY… AUGUSTINE WOULD DOMINATE WESTERN THOUGHT FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM”
AUGUSTINE. Of the Citie of God. London, 1610. Scarce first edition in English of Augustine’s monumental “scheme of universal history… providing a vocabulary for Christian thinking in the West for centuries” (Boorstin, Creators, 59). Because of the innovative conception of history he presents in this work, Augustine was considered “the founder of a new science, to which Voltaire assigned the name ‘philosophy of history.’ For the first time a comprehensive survey of human history is presented” (PMM 3). $12,500.
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“CONVERTE NOS, DEUS SALUTARIS NOSTER…”
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Two leaves from Book of Hours. Paris, circa 1500. Two vivid illuminated leaves from a French Book of Hours, circa 1500, featuring a richly painted miniature depicting the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and manuscript text of compline prayers. A bright and beautiful piece, handsomely framed. $12,500.
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FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF CHAGALL’S SECOND SERIES OF BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS, WITH 96 HELIOGRAVURES AND 24 COLOR LITHOGRAPHS
CHAGALL, Marc. Drawings for the Bible. New York, 1960. First American edition of Chagall’s second series of illustrations for the Bible, with 96 black-and-white heliogravures, as well as 24 color lithographs prepared by Chagall especially for the present work and printed by Mourlot Frères. $12,500.
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