Kirchliche Verfassung der Heutigen Juden Sonderlich derer in Deutschland

AUCTION 7 | Tuesday, June 22nd, 1999 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 341

BODENSCHATZ, JOHANN CHRISTOPH GEORG

Kirchliche Verfassung der Heutigen Juden Sonderlich derer in Deutschland

FIRST EDITION. Four parts in two volumes bound in one. Twenty nine (of thirty) engraved plates of contemporary German-Jewish custom and life-style. Lacking final plate of Jewish Burial (Rubens, 617). Titles printed in red and black Contemporary boards, rubbed and shaken. Thick 4to Freimann 147; Rubens 598-617 (his copy lacking fig. 14 - text of Get)

Frankfurt & Leipzig: for the Author 1748-49

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

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