Wolf Ehrenfried von Reizenstein. Der Vollkommene Pferde-Kenner [“The Complete Horse-Expert”].

AUCTION 61 | Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic Art and Ceremonial Objects

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Lot 106

(GERMANY)

Wolf Ehrenfried von Reizenstein. Der Vollkommene Pferde-Kenner [“The Complete Horse-Expert”].

Second edition. Two volumes bound in one. German with smattering of Hebrew. With frontispiece and 27 engraved plates. pp. 172, (50), 163, (13), pl. 27. Ink marks on title-page, outer corner of frontispiece torn away, 2 plates torn. Contemporary boards, scuffed and worn. Sm. 4to.

Anspach: Haueisen 1780

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

Comprehensive equestrian manual with sections on the general characteristics of horse buying, breeding, riding, training, grooming, veterinary care and horse tack. Most significant for Yiddish historical linguistics is the appendix to volume one, which contains a glossary of over 1500 transliterated Yiddish and Hebrew terms and five sample dialogues intended to aid Gentiles in understanding the horse trade dialect used by Jews. Commerce in livestock was a predominantly Jewish occupation in Central and Eastern Europe (see EJ XI, 411-12).