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

Estimate: $1,200–$1,800
Hammer price: $2,000

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

author

(CEREMONIES)

printer

Shlomo Zalman Apterod & Moshe Gamburg

Place

Frankfurt am Main

Publication

1727

Description

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

references

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

summary

Compendium including Grace after Meals, Sabbath hymns, prayers before retiring, Birth, Marriage and Death, concluding with an Hagadah for Passover. These Frankfurt “Minhagim-style” illustrations are strikingly different from the Amsterdam mould. Primitively wrought, they carry a rather striking angularity in their starkness.

ff. 28 (i.e. 47). Browned. Later marbled boards, gently rubbed at edges. 4to

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