Brith Yitzchak [prayers in relation to Brith Milah, to bring a “Chut Shel Chesed” upon the newborn child in accordance with the Sephardic rite]

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $4,750

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

author

(CEREMONIES).

printer

I. Mondovi for G.J. Jansson

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1768

Description

Woodcut illustration of the circumcision ceremony on title page, with two page introductory Spanish dedication to the Sephardic Mohelim

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1946

summary

Final three pages listing the qualified Mohelim located throughout the Spanish & Portuguese Old and New Worlds: Amsterdam, London, Bayonne, Curaçao, Surinam, etc. Contains an extraordinary ceremony with prayers for the circumcision of slaves

ff. (2), 17, (1). Scattered marginalia, previous ownrs stamp and signatures (J. S. Delmonte, Daniel Bondy etc.) on endpapers. Contemporary calf gilt, with floral designs and initials ”Shin, Cheth, Pei,” rubbed and worn. 12mo

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