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

AUCTION 66 | Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 1:00

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

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

Title and many initial letters historiated. Woodcut illustrations. With Judeo-German translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type. ff. 47(i.e. 48). Variously worn, stained and repaired, lower half of title supplied in facsimile, juvenile blue ink enhancement to candle lighting illustration on f. 20. Modern morocco backed marbled boards. 4to. Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 465; Turniansky 41; Yudlov 159.

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

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $650

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 mold. Primitively wrought, they carry a rather striking angularity in their starkness.