Beschreibung der Hanau-Muenzenbergischen Landern [Description of the Hanau-Muenzenberg Lands]

AUCTION 31 | Tuesday, December 13th, 2005 at 1:00

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Lot 134

(GERMANY)

Beschreibung der Hanau-Muenzenbergischen Landern [Description of the Hanau-Muenzenberg Lands]

FIRST EDITION. Wide margins. On p. 3 woodcut engraving of two cherubim flanking the Tetragrammaton pp. 111, (7), 231, 16, (1), 24. Browned. Contemporary vellum. Folio

Hanau: 1720

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $900

Contains much primary information concerning the Jews of Hanau, a community able to trace its history back to the first half of the thirteenth century. See JE, Vol. VI, pp. 209-10