Bernstein Ignacy (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket. Text in Hebrew, 228 pages, gilt lettering and decorations.on cover.; 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 ".

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Small quarto (6 ½" x 8"). Bound in textured black leather over flexible card covers, white moiré endpapers, all edges gilt. Short tears and chipping to the head and tail of spine back and along the edges of both covers, else very good. Laid-in is a page from a 1950 Boston Symphony program inscribed by Leonard Bernstein, a Pierre Monteux autograph, and printed flyer announcing a 1956 lecture by Sir Hubert Wilkins at the Georgia Institute of Technology. An important autograph book kept by the Philadelphia architect LeRoy B. Rothschild from 1908 until his death in 1935, and later by his wife Mille up through 1952. Rothschild was a member of "The Ell Kube" a secret society founded by American Jews at the University of Pennsylvania, and designed several commercial buildings in Philadelphia. The book contains 48 autographs and inscriptions, several of which date from performances given by the New York Metropolitan Opera at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia from 1908-12. Included is one autograph and two full page self-portrait sketches signed by Enrico Caruso, together with autographs and inscriptions by several other world famous singers and musicians. The album also includes autographs and inscriptions by several world famous explorers such as Ernest Shackleton, Robert Peary, and Hubert Wilkins, and the American traveler and filmmaker E. Burton Holmes. Among the later entries in the book are autographs by virtuoso violinists Naoum Blinder (1947), Isaac Stern (1947) and Yehudi Menuhin (1952), and laid-in is a program inscribed by Leonard Bernstein "For Mrs. Rothschild." An impressive autograph book kept by two prominent figures among Philadelphia's Jewish community. A more detailed list of selected entries is available.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2 volumes, 4to (28.5 cm), XX, 560 pp, 7 plates (4 folding); [4], 650 pp, 6 plates (4 folding, one in color). Publisher's full morocco gilt in Renaissance style, all edges gilt, silk bookmarks (binding slightly rubbed at joints and extremities). Limited to 378 copies, this being no. 10 of 25 printed on Japanese paper. Title in Polish: "Katalog dzie? tre?ci przys?owiowej". Preface in French and Polish, notes in Polish. Ignacy Bernstein (1836-1909) was a Polish librarian and bibliophile of Jewish origin. He was one of the co-founders of the Main Judaic Library at the Great Synagogue on T?omackie Street in Warsaw. He devoted his life to the study of Jewish folklore, especially proverbs. His major work is "Jüdische Sprichwörter und Redensarten" (1908), containing 3,993 Jewish proverbs with Latin transcription and scholarly commentary. The present work is the sumptuously printed catalogue of Bernstein's private library. It comprises 4,761 entries describing books of proverbial content as well as related grammars, primers, literary works, and anthologies. The material ranges from the incunabula period onward in nearly 80 languages including descriptions of 70 manuscripts. Most titles are transcribed in their original alphabets and many entries are illustrated with facsimiles of title pages. Bernstein donated this remarkable collection to the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Kraków. It is now preserved in the Jagiellonian Library.