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

AUCTION 38 | Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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

Title within typographic border. Title and many initial letters historiated. Woodcut illustrations. With Judeo-German translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type ff. 48. Browned with some staining in places, slight worming professionally repaired affecting some words. Later vellum. 4to Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 465; Turniansky 41; Yudlov 159

Frankfurt a/Main: Shlomo Zalman Apterod & Moshe Gamburg 1727

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

Compendium including Grace after Meals, Sabbath hymns, prayers before retiring, Birth, Marriage and Death services, concluding with an Hagadah for Passover. These Frankfurt “Minhagim-style” illustrations are notably different from the Amsterdam mould. Primitively wrought, they carry a rather striking angularity in their starkness