Birkath HaMazon - Dos Benschen. ff. 71. <<* Bound with:>> Minhagim. ff. 57. Edited by Shimon Levi Ginzburg.

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Rare & Excellent Hebrew Printed Books: From the Library of Arthur A. Marx

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Birkath HaMazon - Dos Benschen. ff. 71. <<* Bound with:>> Minhagim. ff. 57. Edited by Shimon Levi Ginzburg.

Two works bound in one volume. Both according to the custom and rites of Germany and Poland. Both with <<many wonderful woodcut illustrations>> and historiated initial letters. With Zodiac and agricultural woodcut illustrations for each month. Hebrew, with Judeo-German translation printed in wayber-taytsch type. With bookplate of M. Zagajski. Deeply and evenly browned throughout, few short tears. Later vellum. 4to. Vinograd, Amsterdam 1180 and 1324.

Amsterdam: Solomon Proops 1722 and 1728

Est: $4,000 - $5,000

Two compendia that include Grace after Meals, Sabbath hymns, prayers before retiring, Birth, Marriage and Death services and a Passover Hagadah. The illuminating woodcuts illustrate selected holidays and observances through the annual religious cycle. The prototype of these images was Menasseh ben Israel’s Sepher Minhagim of 1645.