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Bieberkraut, James (Leipzig 1879-unknown). Im Stall (In the cow-house). Fine etching of two cows lying on the floor of a cow-house, underneath 2 small etched chickens; signed in pencil J. Bieberkraut. 23,4 x 29 cm. (# 5838)

James Bieberkraut, was a German Jewish painter and etcher. According to Münchner Maler V, 84: Bieberkraut descended from a Jewish family, which immigrated very probably from Palestine to Germany; thus Bieberkraut had still the Turkish nationality when he moved from Berlin to München in 1898. He lived and worked in München until his announced departure to Palestine on 20-4-1934. See on Bieberkraut also: Vollmer I, 207; and: Schaalman, James Bieberkraut der Maler und Radierer (in Bayerische Israelitische Gemeindezeitung, 1927, Heft 2, 32-35 (on internet). - Fine impression with ample margins.

Bury, (R.) de. Histoire de Philippe, et d'Alexandre le Grand, Rois de Macédoine. Paris, l'auteur, d'Houry, and Debure l'aîné, 1760. 1 lf., 18, 587 pp. Large 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, back gilt (rubbed, somewhat stained, corners and spine-ends defective). (# 4881)

Quérard, La France litt. I, 574. Oettinger, Bibliogr. Biographique Univ. II, 1415. First edition of this history of the Macedonian Kings Phillip (reign 359 - 336 BC) and his son Alexander the Great (reign 336 - 323 BC), who conquered many countries and founded the large Macedonian Empire on the Balkan, in Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, Egypt, Syria, Iran (Persia) and eastwards as far as northern India. The French jurist and historiographer Richard de Bury (Paris 1730 - 1794) was a prolific author. - Copy containing two versions of the pages 393 - 396, the second set is bound at the end; A few leaves slightly foxed.