Birkath HaMazon - Dos Benschen. Text in Hebrew, with Yiddish translation. f. 71. * Bound with: Minhagim. ff. 61. Yiddish printed in waybertaytsch letters

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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Birkath HaMazon - Dos Benschen. Text in Hebrew, with Yiddish translation. f. 71. * Bound with: Minhagim. ff. 61. Yiddish printed in waybertaytsch letters

Two works bound in one. Both according to the custom and rites of Germany and Poland. Both with many woodcut illustrations of Jewish ceremonial life Browned and stained, few crude taped repairs, edges slightly frayed. Contemporary vellum, vellum. 4to Vinograd, Amsterdam 1180 and 1210

Amsterdam, Proops, 1722: and Amsterdam, di Cordova, 1723

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

PRICE REALIZED $1,700

Two compendia that include Grace after Meals, Sabbath songs, prayers before retiring, birth, marriage and death observances, Hagadah for Passover, etc. The many illuminating woodcuts illustrate select holidays and through the annual religious and life-cycle