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

AUCTION 14 | Tuesday, November 13th, 2001 at 1:00
Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 129
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Birchath Hamazon - Dos Benshen. [compendium of selected festive rites]. According to the custom of Germany and Poland

Title with woodcut typographic border. With many woodcut illustrations and historiated initial letters. Hebrew, with Judeo-German translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type ff.71. Foxed, stained in places, neat marginal repair to title, lacking lower portion of f.49, previous owners signature on title. Later half-morocco marbled boards, rubbed, covers starting. 4to Vinograd, Amsterdam 1180; Turniansky no. 39 (illustrated) in: Alei Sefer vol. X (1982) ; Yudlov 144

Amsterdam : Solomon Proops 1722

Est: $3,000 - $4,000
PRICE REALIZED $1,500
Compendium including Grace after Meals, Sabbath hymns, prayers before retiring, Birth, Marriage and Death services, 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 of 1645