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

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

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

author

(CEREMONIES)

printer

Isaac di Cordova

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1723

Description

Title with woodcut typographic border. With many woodcut illustrations and historiated initial letters. Hebrew, with Judeo-German translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type.

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1203; Turniansky no. 40 in: Alei Sefer vol. X (1982); Yudlov 145

summary

Compendium including Grace after Meals, Sabbath hymns, prayers before retiring, Birth, Marriage and Death, concluding with an Hagadah for Passover.

ff. 71. Light damp-stains in places, neat marginal repairs to title. Generally, a fine copy. Recent vellum boards. 4to

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