Kirchliche Verfassung der Heutigen Juden Sonderlich derer in Deutschland

BODENSCHATZ, JOHANN CHRISTOPH GEORG.

for the Author

Frankfurt & Leipzig

1748-49

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

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

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