Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 68

The June 30th Manuscript and Collectibles Auction

Religions

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 256		Dalai Lama (1935 -) 14th Dalai Lama of Tibetan Buddism; he fled to India in 1959 following a failed uprising. Color photograph Signed in green ink, 6¼ x 4¼ in, n.p., n.d. One tiny brown spot at upper left and a faint paper clip mark. A smiling head-and-shoulders portrait. Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $160
Lot 257		Cambridge Bible, 1835 & 1836. Cambridge: Printed at the Pitt Press, by John Smith, Printer to the University, 12mo. The Old Testament printed in 1835, 1106 pages; The New Testament printed in 1836, 351 pages. Leather covers with scroll designs, pages gilt-edged, gilt border and bands on spine. Early owners' notes on end papers. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $123
Lot 258		[Christian Maori Broadside, c. 1833]. Printed broadside of Matthew 19:13-15, titled "Children brought to Christ," in English, and "Ka mau-ria nga ta-ma-ri-ki ki Te Ka-rai-ti" in Maori (printed by William Jones, Sydney), 18 x 15¼ in. Presumably for use in Church Mission Society schools. (See Williams, A Bibliography of Printed Maori to 1900). Scattered age toning, else fine. Estimated Value $500 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 259		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 260		Gutenberg Bible Leaf From the 4th Book of Esdras. Printed leaf, double folio, 4 columns (2 each front and back), each column with 42 lines, being chapter 11, line 38 through chapter 13, line 6, from the 4th Book of Ezra, identified in Latin as Esdrae liber IV, and traditionally included among the Apocrypha of English Bibles as 2 Esdras. Authorship is ascribed to Ezra, c. A.D. 100. Printed by Johann Gutenberg (Mainz, Germany), c. 1450-1455. With hand rubrication. Presented in a black leather portfolio case with the title: A Noble Fragment Being A Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible. 1450-1455 With A Bibliographical Essay By A. Edward Newton. New York Gabriel Wells 1921. The Bible leaf is attached with archival tape on the verso at the left margin to a slightly larger sheet in the portfolip. Chapters 3-14 of 4 Esdras are referred to as the Jewish Apocalypse of Ezra and contain seven visions granted to Salathiel (also called Ezra) in Babylon. The page offered here holds part of the fifth and sixth visions. The fifth vision has an eagle with three heads and twenty wings rising from the sea, being rebuked by a lion and then burned. The page begins with the lion rebuking the eagle, "Listen and I will speak to you. The Most High says to you, 'Are you not the one that remains of the four beasts which I had made to reign in my world so that the end of my times might come through them? You, the fourth that has come, have conquered all the beasts that have gone before; and you have held sway over the world with much terror, and over all the earth with grievous oppression'…." The Lord tells a terrified Ezra that the eagle is "the fourth kingdom which appeared in a vision to your brother Daniel" and "the lion is the Messiah whom the Most High has kept until the end of days, who will arise from the posterity of David…." In the sixth vision (13:1-58), Ezra sees "something like the figure of a man come up out of the heart of the sea…and behold, that man flew with the clouds of heaven; and wherever he turned his face to look, everything under his gaze trembled, and whenever his voice issued from his mouth, all who heard his voice melted as wax melts when it feels the fire…." The page ends with line 6 of the sixth vision. A translation of the the fourth Book of Ezra is included, with the text of this leaf highlighted. The Gutenberg Bible is a printed version of the Latin Vulgate. It was the first major book to be printed with movable type. It is thought that Gutenberg printed approximatey 180 copies: 145 on paper and the remainder on vellum. Either 47 or 48 of the 42-line Bibles are known to exist today but only 21 of them are complete. Even at the time they were printed, they were prohibitively expensive and probably only within the financial reach of churches and monasteries. Estimated Value $50,000 - 60,000. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $36,000
Lot 261		Cohen, Frederick Elmour (1858) British-American portrait, miniature, historical, and genre painter. An English Jew, he immigrated to Detroit from Canada during the rebellion of 1837, where he stayed until 1855. Autograph Letter Signed ("Frederick"), two pages, Detroit, October 22, 1846. To a friend, "Mrs. Capt. Montieth / Canandaigua, NY," with a brilliant watercolor portrait of himself and his wife on the blank leaf. In addition, he has drawn a pen and ink self-portrait at the bottom of the second page. In the letter Cohen writes about his brother and that his sister "would certainly enjoy the society of my wife & her friends, for she is a person who is and ever has been strictly pious, and so are all her conexions [sic] in this city, of the highest respectability and everything I know would suit her…" In a later part of the letter he explains his ink portrait and discusses some other of his own life portraits while critiquing the attached painting: "…I send you a miniature of Myself & Wife. They are considered very good likenesses. My wife is taken from the original herself, and is as near as I could come to a perfect miniature. My own is taken from one in my studio as large as life which is often taken & spoken to as though it was the original. However, sufise [sic] it to say that any person you show this picture to will know both of us where ever they may meet us, if they have any kind of memory. That gown I wear is my working gown. I have a large hat to match it, but it gives me to wild a look to paint it so I have left that off although there are 3 portraits of me in Buffalo, one in Chicago & 2 in New York that have all got the hat on- they look like this [On the lower left hand corner of page two Cohen has drawn a picture of himself with a hat and the caption- I am a handsome child ain't I; poor boy, it is a great pity. I didn't use'd to be always so too]…." Another Cohen self portrait is in the Detroit Museum of Fine Arts. An extraordinary illustrated letter by an important artist, which encompasses the areas of American, English, and Canadian Judaica, Art, and Michiganiana. Housed in a quarter mottled calf fitted box with a removable framed matte through which the painting may be viewed. Estimated Value $3,000 - 5,000. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,400
Lot 262		Times and Seasons, Dec. 15, 1844, Nauvoo, Ill. Vol. V. No. 23, 16 pages. This early LDS newspaper was printed from November 1839 to February 1846. LDS Church founder Joseph Smith, Jr. was listed as the editor from January 1842 until his assasination in June 1844. John Taylor, who had run the operation with Wilford Woodruff, became the proprietor as well as the editor, in January 1844. This issue continues the "History of Joseph Smith,"which was serialized in the paper, and recounts revelations Smith received in February and March 1833. There is also discussion against Sidney Rigdon, the senior surviving member of the First Presidency, who thought he should become president after Smith's murder. Light toning and foxing, else fine. Estimated Value $100 - 200. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $60