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

AUCTION 29 | Monday, June 20th, 2005 at 1:00

Superior Hebrew Printed Books: Singular Selections from Two Distingushed Private Collections with American-Judaica.

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

Title with woodcut typographic border. With many woodcut illustrations of Jewish ceremonial life as well as historiated initial letters. Hebrew, with Judeo-German translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type ff. 71. Some staining, neat marginal repairs to few leaves inserted from another copy. Recent vellum. 4to Vinograd, Amsterdam 1203; Turniansky no. 40 in: Alei Sefer vol. X (1982); Mehlman 145

Amsterdam: Isaac di Cordova 1723

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,250

Compendium including Grace after Meals, Sabbath hymns, prayers before retiring, Birth, Marriage and Death rituals and concluding with a Hagadah for Passover