Tractatus de Juribus Judaeorum / Von Recht der Juden. Worinnen von denen Gesetzen, denen sie unterworffen, deren Heyrathen, Contracten, Wucher, Testamenten…gehandelt wird. [“Laws of the Jews: Marriage, Contracts, Usury, Testaments”]

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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Lot 111

BECK, JOHANNES JODOCUS

Tractatus de Juribus Judaeorum / Von Recht der Juden. Worinnen von denen Gesetzen, denen sie unterworffen, deren Heyrathen, Contracten, Wucher, Testamenten…gehandelt wird. [“Laws of the Jews: Marriage, Contracts, Usury, Testaments”]

Second Edition. Title in red and black with historiated initials pp.(12), 599, (1 blank). Trace foxed. Contemporary half-vellum, rubbed, bottom of spine wanting. Thick 4to Freimann, p. 362

Nürnberg: Johann Georg Lochners 1741

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $400

Engraved frontispiece with four illustrated vignettes depicting: Jewish Marriage Ceremony; Deathbed scene; Financial dealings; and Judicial death-sentence (see Rubens, Jewish Iconography 1394i-1394iv)