Sales catalogue 467: Maggs Bros

Date:
1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/37
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 467: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PICART’S. FAMOUS ENGRAVINGS OF JEWISH LIFE IN AMSTERDAM. 1884 A.D. [168] PICART (Bernard). Scénes de la vie Juive dessinées d’aprés nature, 1663-1733. Title and 16 magnificent heliogravures of scenes from the Life of the Portuguese and Spanish Jewish Community in Amsterdam from the famous engravings of Picart. Folio, lettered cloth portfolio. Paris, 1884. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. VIII.). £1 5s _ , ., Picart, born at Paris, 1673, showed at an early age a marked facility in the imitation of the great masters. In 1710 he settled at Amsterdam, where he supplied plates and engravings to printers and booksellers. _ Chat part of his work which is of Jewish interest is contained in the ‘‘Ceremonies des Juifs.’’ These plates, all of which are carefully and faithfully prepared, are among the earliest engravings on Jewish ecclesiastical and ceremonial subjects. They are now faithfully reproduced in heliogravure and comprise :— Jew with phylacteries and praying scarf. Benediction of the priests in the Portuguese Synagogue. Elevation of the Law. Sounding the Shofar on New Year’s Day. The Day of Atonement (in the Synagogue). Search for leaven before the Passover. Passover meal. Feast of Hoshannah Rabah (in the Synagogue). Feast of Tabernacles (at home). 10. Rejoicing of the law (in the Synagogue). 11. Escorting home the bridegroom of the law. 12. Circumcision. 13. Redemption of the first born. 14. Marriage among the Portuguese Jews. 15. Marriage among the German Jews. 16. Circuit round the coffin. 17. Interment. SS Oa in 1887 A.D. | [169] RAGOZIN (Zénaide A.). CGhaldea from the earliest times to the rise of Assyria. (Treated as a general introduction to the study of ancient history). : With numerous illustrations. 8vo, cloth. London, 1337. 6s 1890 A.D. [170] KAYSERLING (M.). Biblioteca Espanola-Portugueza-Judaica. Dictionnaire Bibliographique des auteurs Juifs, de leurs ouvrages Espagnols et Portugais et des oeuvres sur et contre les Juifs et le Judaisme. Avec un apercu sur la littérature des Juifs Espagnols et une collection des proverbes Espagnols. 8vo, original wrappers. Strasbourg, 1890. £1 15s
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