Judisches Ceremonien. Full compliment of twenty-eight engraved plates of Jewish ceremony and custom. Engraved title plus plates

AUCTION 37 | Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 184
(KIRCHNER, PAUL CHRISTIAN)

Judisches Ceremonien. Full compliment of twenty-eight engraved plates of Jewish ceremony and custom. Engraved title plus plates

Seemingly a separate issue of these celebrated engravings, produced on significantly wider sheets than the codex-form ff. 29. Slight marginal stains. Contemporary half leather patterned boards, spine slightly chipped and rubbed. Rectangular 4to Cf. Rubens 539-67; Freimann 148

Nürnberg: Peter Conrad Monath (c.1730)

Est: $3,000 - $4,000
A clean copy with crisp engraved plates detailing religious and cultural life of 18th century German-Jewish society