Birchath Hamazon - Dos Benshen [compendium of selected festive rites]. 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 [compendium of selected festive rites]. According to the custom of Poland and Germany

Title within typographic border. Title and many initial letters historiated. Woodcut illustrations. With Yiddish translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type. ff. 47. Trimmed and lightly worn. Modern boards. 4to Turniansky 41; Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 465; Yudlov 159

Frankfurt a/Main: Shlomo Zalman Apterod & Moshe Gamburg 1727

Est: $700 - $1,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

These Frankfurt “Minhagim-style” illustrations are strikingly different from the Amsterdam mould. Primitively wrought, they carry a rather striking angularity in their starkness