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

Estimate: $700–$1,000
Hammer price: $1,500

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

author

(CEREMONIES)

printer

Shlomo Zalman Apterod & Moshe Gamburg

Place

Frankfurt a/Main

Publication

1727

Description

Title within typographic border. Title and many initial letters historiated. Woodcut illustrations. With Yiddish translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type.

references

Turniansky 41; Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 465; Yudlov 159

summary

These Frankfurt “Minhagim-style” illustrations are strikingly different from the Amsterdam mould. Primitively wrought, they carry a rather striking angularity in their starkness

ff. 47. Trimmed and lightly worn. Modern boards. 4to

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