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Bidding Information
Lot #    6629
Auction End Date    2/10/2004 1:48:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Beknopte Beschryving . . . Amsterdam
Author    [The Alfred Rubens Copy] I. Veenhuisen
City    Amsterdam
Publisher    Jan Van Der Heyde (Heide)
Publication Date    1749
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [12], 71, [1] ff., 246:170 mm., each f. extended in upper or lower margin, bound in contemporary baords, split, plate on front panel.
          
Detailed
Description		    Profusely illustrated bi-lingual Dutch and French work on “all principal edifices of the famous city of Amsterdam.” On the page following the title page is a large reprodcution of the coat of arms of Amsterdam. Excerpt for introdcutory pages of text, the book is comprised of facing pages, one of text in two columns, Dutch on the outer, French the inner column, and the facing page accompanying illustrations. There is an illustration of the exterior of a synagogue (Der Joden Tempel of Sinagoge/La Temple de Juifs) and following it the interior of the synagogue. The numerous illustrations in this book, copper plate etchings, are detailed and beautiful. A notation on a front leaf states that one plate was designed and engraved by I. Veenhuisen. The end-papers are marbled; the front end-paper has the ex-libre of Alfred Rubens. There is an accompanying letter, from Dr. Arthur Polak of Amsterdam to Mr. Rubens of London, dated 26-2-1958 discussing the synagogue plates, and a small photograph of the synagogue interior plate.
          
Paragraph 2    Alfred Rubens, English collector and author. A London surveyor and estate agent by profession, he began early in life to collect engravings of Jewish interest and his Anglo-Jewish Portraits (1935) was based on his collections. This was followed by a similar work of wider scope, A Jewish Iconography (1954; rev. ed. 1981) extending to engravings of scenes of Jewish life and to continental engraved portraits. A logical outcome was his History of Jewish Costume (1967). Rubens was chairman of the London Jewish Museum for many years, and was president of the Jewish Historical Society of England (1956–58).
          
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Holland:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
Other:    Illustrations
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Dutch
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica