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Auction 5 · Lot 57

Kirchliche Verfassung der Heutigen Juden Sonderlich derer in Deutschland

Estimate
$3,000–$4,000
Hammer price
$4,000

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

author

BODENSCHATZ, JOHANN CHRISTOPH GEORG

printer

for the Author

Place

Frankfurt & Leipzig

Publication

1748-49

Description

FIRST EDITION. Four parts in two volumes bound in one. COMPLETE WITH THIRTY ENGRAVED PLATES of contemporary German-Jewish custom and life-style. Plates tipped and folded to blank leaves. Titles printed in red and black

references

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

summary

Splendid copy of the first edition. Highly desirable with its complete set of plates depicting Jewish rites and ceremonies. Bodenschatz (1717-97) a South German Orientalist made Judaism his special study of which the present work on the “ecclesiastical constitution of the German Jews” is the most important result
Contemporary vellum. Thick 4to
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