Gesetz-Sammlung für die Königlichen Preussischen Staaten. [Law Book of the Royal Prussian State]. Numbers 1-26

Estimate

$800–$1,200

Hammer price

Not recorded

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author

(GERMANY)

printer

Georg Decker

Place

Berlin

Publication

1812

summary

Includes the Prussian Jewish Edict of Emancipation (pp.17-22). The Edict freed Jews from the special taxes and restrictions on movement and marriage that had encumbered Jewish life in the kingdom of Prussia. It stated that Jews were forthwith "nationals and citizens of Prussia" who shared the rights and obligations of their Christian fellows. Prussian Jews were now free to live and to conduct commerce wherever and with whatever goods they wished - although they continued to be excluded from positions of political authority

pp. xi, 204. Foxed. Contemporary half-calf over speckled boards, rubbed, spine starting. 4to

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