Eigentliche Beschreibung…der Gottesdienstlichen…der Juden.

Estimate: $1,200–$1,800
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

PICART, BERNARD.

Place

Zurich

Publication

1739

Description

Twelve engraved plates (one double-page) depicting twenty scenes of Jewish ceremony and custom as practiced in 18th century Amsterdam. Text in German. Title in red and black.

references

Cf. Rubens 438-57

summary

The consignor, who migrated to the United States from Frankfurt a/Main, relates he received this volume in 1934, as a Bar-Mitzvah gift from Eric Stiebel, later chairman of the internationally renowned art gallery, Rosenberg & Stiebel.

pp.80. Double-page plate taped with clean tear at fold, few inconspicuous stains. Later calf-backed marbled boards, rubbed. Folio

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