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

AUCTION 8 | Tuesday, November 16th, 1999 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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

Title with woodcut typographic border. With many woodcut illustrations and historiated initial letters. Hebrew, with Yiddish translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type ff.71. Browned, several leaves remargined. Modern morocco-backed boards. 4to Vinograd, Amsterdam 1180; Turniansky no. 39 (illustrated) in: Alei Sefer vol. X (1982) ; Yudlov 144

Amsterdam: Solomon Proops 1723

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

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