Birchath Hamazon. Dos Benshen [compendium of selected festive rites]. According to the custom of Poland and Germany.

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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Birchath Hamazon. Dos Benshen [compendium of selected festive rites]. According to the custom of Poland and Germany.

Title within typographic border. Title and many initial letters historiated. Woodcut illustrations. With Judeo-German translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type. ff. 28 (i.e. 47). Browned. Later marbled boards, gently rubbed at edges. 4to Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 465; Turniansky 41; Yudlov 159

Frankfurt am Main : Shlomo Zalman Apterod & Moshe Gamburg 1727

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

PRICE REALIZED $2,000

Compendium including Grace after Meals, Sabbath hymns, prayers before retiring, Birth, Marriage and Death, concluding with an Hagadah for Passover. These Frankfurt “Minhagim-style” illustrations are strikingly different from the Amsterdam mould. Primitively wrought, they carry a rather striking angularity in their starkness.