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Auction 1 · Lot 96

Synagoga Judaica: das ist Juden-Schul, Darinnen der gantz Jüdische Glaub…mit allen Ceremonien.

Estimate
$200–$300
Hammer price
$180

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

BUXTORF, JOHANNES.

printer

Heirs of Ludwig Koenig

Place

Basle

Publication

1643

Description

Second German edition.

references

Freimann 147

summary

In his zeal to investigate, and so document Jewish life, Buxtorf, accompanied by the printer Koenig, attended a circumcision ceremony in Basle. For this offense both men were said to have been fined by the municipal authorities. See JE, III 444-46.
Browned, contemporary vellum, 8vo
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