Kirchliche Verfassung der Heutigen Juden Sonderlich derer in Deutschland

AUCTION 22 | Tuesday, January 27th, 2004 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art Including Holy Land Maps, Illustrated Books, Photography and Graphic Art from The Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg of Greenwich, Conn

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Lot 165

zz BODENSCHATZ, JOHANN CHRISTOPH GEORG.

Kirchliche Verfassung der Heutigen Juden Sonderlich derer in Deutschland

FIRST EDITION. Four parts in two volumes bound in one. COMPLETE WITH THIRTY ENGRAVED PLATES of contemporary German-Jewish custom and life-style. Title printed in red and black Outer lower corner of additional title neatly clipped, otherwise an uncommonly fine copy. Modern half-vellum over marbled boards. Thick 4to Freimann 147; Rubens 598-617 (his copy lacking fig.14 - text of Get)

Frankfurt & Leipzig: 1748-49

Est: $2,500 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,000

Splendid copy of the first edition. Highly desirable with its complete set of plates depicting Jewish rites and ceremonies. 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