The present catalogue includes an extensive chapter dedicated to Bezalel artists, including illustrated books, various objects, drawing and paintings. This chapter features numerous original sketches for works by Ze'ev Raban - Raban's sketchbook (lot 318), sketches for illustrations to the Song of Songs (lot 320), sketches of the signs of the Zodiac (lot 327), a large collection of photographs of works by Raban and Meir Gur Aryeh (lot 344), and many other unique items from the estate of Shlomo Kedmi, who succeeded Raban and Gur Aryeh in the Industrial Art Studio.
The chapter dedicated to Hebrew children's books features charming works by prominent writers and illustrators: stories by Benzion Raskin illustrated by Uriel Kahana, Chaim Hanft and Haim Goldberg; poems by Itzhak Katzenelson illustrated by Gertrud Caspari; rhymes by Ya'akov David Kamson illustrated by Else Wenz-Viëtor; children's book published by "Omanut", with color lithograph illustrations by "Chavurat Tsayarim" (Apter, Mutzelmacher, Kravtsov and Higer); pop-up books illustrated by David Gilboa; and other rare books.
The avant-garde chapter features Yiiddish, Hebrew and Russian books, with illustrations and cover-designs by important Russian avant-garde artists such as El Lissitzky, Joseph Chaikov, Issachar Ber Ryback, Mark Epstein and Nathan Altman.
The catalogue further features a variety of choice items representing the history of Palestine and Zionism, bibliophile works, letters, travelogues and maps of Palestine, photographs, postcards, rare Ladino periodicals, works by Safed-based artist Yosef Zvi Geiger, bibliophile works, a chapter dedicated to numismatics, and many more items.
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LOT 22:
The Ben-Yehuda Dictionary – Two Booklets from the "Mahadura Kama" – Jerusalem, 1902
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The Ben-Yehuda Dictionary – Two Booklets from the "Mahadura Kama" – Jerusalem, 1902
Milon HaLashon Ha-Ivrit BaZman Hazeh, Hibro Eliezer Ben Yehuda [Dictionary of the Hebrew Language of This Time, by Eliezer Ben Yehuda] Booklets "Gimel" and "Daled" (out of the six booklets printed in this edition). Jerusalem: Hashkafah, [ca. 1902]. Hebrew.
Between 1900 and 1905, Eliezer Ben Yehuda printed a series of thin booklets that were sold to subscribers. These booklets represent his early attempts of publishing a full unabridged dictionary of the Hebrew language. These attempts did not last long; in the end, only six such booklets were actually printed, which were together titled "Mahadura Kama" ("First Edition").
These are two of the six booklets. They contain entries for words beginning with the Hebrew letters "aleph-vav-bet" through "aleph-vav-het" (Booklet "Gimel") and "aleph-het" through "aleph-yud-nun" (Booklet "Daled"). With original covers, printed in Hebrew and French. A printed (Hebrew) note appears at the beginning of Booklet "Gimel": "The present booklet has been so delayed on account of my journey to Russia on business related to the dictionary."
Booklet "Gimel": 79-122 pp., 26.5 cm. Booklet "Daled": 123-166 pp., 27.5 cm. (Two additional leaves appear at the beginning of the scanned copy of Booklet "Daled" kept in the National Library of Israel: pp. 23-26 of the Introduction.) Good-fair condition. Stains. Minor blemishes. Tears (mostly minor) to edges. Cover and a number of other leaves detached in Booklet "Daled"; several leaves uncut at top edges. Open tears and pinholes to edges of covers. Strip of paper to edge of one cover. Missing spines.
