Kirchliche Verfassung der Heutigen Juden Sonderlich derer in Deutschland.

AUCTION 12 | Tuesday, March 13th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 82

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 sheep, worn, upper cover loose. Lacking small portion of backstrip. Thick 4to Freimann 147; Rubens 598-617 (his copy lacking fig. 14 - text of Get)

Frankfurt & Leipzig: For the Author 1748-49

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,400

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)