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

AUCTION 17 | Tuesday, November 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic and Ceremonial Art From Various Owners

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Birchath Hamazon - Dos Benshen [compendium of selected prayers and 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 and stained, thumbed in places, marginal taped repair to title. Modern blind-tooled auburn morocco. 4to Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 465; Turniansky 41; Yudlov 159

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

Est: $2,500 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,500

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