May 05, 2009 - Sale 2179

Sale 2179 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 4,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ILLUSTRATED KABALLAH FUCHS, ERNST. Millenary Texts of Sefer Yetsira and the Thirty-two Paths of Wisdom. 14 etchings, each signed in pencil by Fuchs, lower left and numbered 83/297; 22 illustrations in the text. 737x559 mm; 29x22 inches (sheets), full margins. Elephant folio, contents loose as issued in garnet velvet box with seven-branched Menorah embossed in gold across the front, which opens in two panels from the center, some general wear to the outer box. Paris: Art et Valeur, 1978

Additional Details

a massive and beautifully produced work celebrating the text of the kaballah. number 83 of 297 copies of the collector's edition. The text is translated into four languages: French, English, German, and Hebrew (the Hebrew using type engraved in 1858), reproduced by serigraphy, and then embossed in gold. The plates were engraved by Pierre Chambili at Moret Studio.