Kirchliche Verfassung der Heutigen Juden Sonderlich derer in Deutschland

Estimate: $2,500–$3,500
Hammer price: $2,500

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

author

BODENSCHATZ, JOHANN CHRISTOPH GEORG

Place

Frankfurt & Leipzig

Publication

1748-49

Description

FIRST EDITION. Two volumes (in 4 parts) bound in one. COMPLETE WITH THIRTY ENGRAVED PLATES of contemporary German-Jewish custom and ceremony. Plates tipped to blank leaves and placed at end of each volume (as issued ). Titles in red and black. WITH: ADDITIONAL PLATE, 20 VIGNETTES OF VARIOUS RITUAL OBSERVANCES

references

Freimann 147; Rubens 598-617 (his copy lacking fig. 14 - text of Get)

summary

The work - no doubt due to the detailed engravings - did much to secure for Judaism a favorable consideration in Germany. See I. Abrahams, By-Paths in Hebraic Bookland (1920) who suggests that Bodenschatz himself is represented in the plate of the synagogue during Sabbath morning prayers, (as a hatless observer). Unseen plate at end includes vignette scenes of betrothal, circumcision, Tabernacle and synagogue practices, as well as musicians, scholars and tradesmen

Ex library, few stamps removed from text pages, few light stains, contemporary half-calf, worn, thick 4to

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