Kirchliche Verfassung der Heutigen Juden Sonderlich derer in Deutschland

AUCTION 5 | Tuesday, June 23rd, 1998 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 57

BODENSCHATZ, JOHANN CHRISTOPH GEORG

Kirchliche Verfassung der Heutigen Juden Sonderlich derer in Deutschland

FIRST EDITION. Four parts in two volumes bound in one. COMPLETE WITH THIRTY ENGRAVED PLATES of contemporary German-Jewish custom and life-style. Plates tipped and folded to blank leaves. Titles printed in red and black Contemporary vellum. Thick 4to Freimann 147; Rubens 598-617 (his copy lacking fig. 14 - text of Get)

Frankfurt & Leipzig: for the Author 1748-49

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,000

Splendid copy of the first edition. Highly desirable with its complete set of plates depicting Jewish rites and ceremonies. Bodenschatz (1717-97) a South German Orientalist made Judaism his special study of which the present work on the “ecclesiastical constitution of the German Jews” is the most important result