Kirchliche Verfassung der Heutigen Juden Sonderlich derer in Deutschland

AUCTION 9 | Tuesday, March 28th, 2000 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 194

BODENSCHATZ, JOHANN CHRISTOPH GEORG

Kirchliche Verfassung der Heutigen Juden Sonderlich derer in Deutschland

FIRST EDITION. Four parts in two volumes bound in one. Thirty engraved plates of contemporary German-Jewish custom and life-style. Titles printed in red and black Browned and stained. Contemporary blind-tooled boards, rubbed, upper cover loose. Spine in compartments, lacking small part. 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 - $5,000

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. The work - no doubt due to the detailed engravings - did much to secure for Judaism a favorable consideration in Germany. See I. Abrahams, By-Paths in Hebraic Bookland (1920) who suggests that Bodenschatz himself is represented in the plate of the synagogue during Sabbath morning prayers, (as a hatless observer)