Birchath Hamazon - Dos Benshen. According to the custom of Poland and Germany

AUCTION 3 | Tuesday, November 25th, 1997 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Printed Books Duplicates from the Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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Birchath Hamazon - Dos Benshen. According to the custom of Poland and Germany

Title within typographic border. Many historiated initial letters and woodcut illustrations. With Yiddish translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type. Annotated in a contemporary hand ff. 71. Worn in places, taped with occasional loss, browned. Modern boards. 4to Vinograd, Amsterdam 1180; Turniansky no. 39 (illustrated) in: Alei Sefer vol. X (1982) ; Yudlov 144

Amsterdam: Solomon Proops 1722

Est: $700 - $1,000

PRICE REALIZED $900

Compendium including Grace after Meals, Sabbath hymns, prayers before retiring, Birth, Marriage and Death, concluding with an Hagadah for Passover. 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, Amsterdam 1645