Kirchliche Verfassung der Heutigen Juden Sonderlich derer in Deutschland

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $1,500

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author

BODENSCHATZ, JOHANN CHRISTOPH GEORG

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for the Author

Place

Frankfurt & Leipzig

Publication

1748-49

Description

FIRST EDITION. Four parts in two volumes bound in one. Twenty nine (of thirty) engraved plates of contemporary German-Jewish custom and life-style. Lacking final plate of Jewish Burial (Rubens, 617). Titles printed in red and black

references

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

summary

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 boards, rubbed and shaken. Thick 4to

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