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Lot #    15467
Auction End Date    9/5/2006 10:54:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Jüdisches Athenäum
Author    [Only Ed.]
City    Grimma - Leipzig
Publisher    Druck und Verlag des Verlags-Comptoirs
Publication Date    1851
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   Only edition. viii, 253 pp. ports., 168:134 mm., usual age staining. A very good copy bound in the original boards, recent spine.
          
Detailed
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   Title: Jüdisches Athenäum: Gallerie berühmter Männer jüdischer Abstammung und jüdischen Glaubens, von der letzten Hälfte des achtzehnten bis zum Schluss der ersten Hälfte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts.

This volume contains biographies of famous Jews, as the subtitle states (in translation): Gallery of famous men of Jewish descent and Jewish faith, of the last half of the eighteenth century up to the conclusion of the first half of the nineteenth century. Those written about include: Heinrich Heine, Jacques Fromental Halevy, Heinrich Simon and many others. The text is in German, and the table of contents (vii-viii) is in alphabetical order.

          
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19th Century:    Checked
  
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Language:    German
  
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