Kirchliche Verfassung der Heutigen Juden Sonderlich derer in Deutschland

AUCTION 19 | Tuesday, March 11th, 2003 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art

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Lot 60

BODENSCHATZ, JOHANN CHRISTOPH GEORG.

Kirchliche Verfassung der Heutigen Juden Sonderlich derer in Deutschland

FIRST EDITION. Four parts in two volumes bound in one. Twenty nine (of thirty) engraved plates of contemporary German-Jewish custom and life-style. Lacking final plate of Jewish Burial (Rubens, 617). Titles printed in red and black Recent blind-tooled tan morocco. Thick 4to Freimann 147; Rubens 598-617 (his copy lacking fig. 14 - text of Get)

Frankfurt & Leipzig: for the Author 1748-49

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

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