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

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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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. 48. Lightly browned, thumbed in places, lower portion of f.13 supplied in facsimile. Later vellum. 4to Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 465; Turniansky 41; Yudlov 159

Frankfurt a/Main: Shlomo Zalman Apterod & Moshe Gamburg 1727

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

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