Auction 49 · Lot 224

Ritualgesetze der Juden

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $650

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

author

(MENDELSSOHN, MOSES)

printer

Christian Friedrich Voss

Place

Berlin

Publication

1778

Description

FIRST EDITION. With bookplate of Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1874-1936), great-great-grandson of Moses Mendelssohn, see EJ, Vol. XI, cols. 1324-6

references

Freimann 364; Meyer, Mendelssohn Bibliographie (1965), no. 237

summary

Written under the supervision of Chief Rabbi Hirschel Lewin of Berlin (previously Rabbi of the Great and Hambo Synagogues in London, 1758-70) this is an account of Jewish commercial and matrimonial law as relating to property rights. The study was requested by the Prussian Government as a guide to judges when arbitrating such cases between Jews. “Mendelssohn’s role in [the book’s] production was tantamount to that of author” see A. Altmann, Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical Study (1973) p. 470

pp. (12), 22, 267, (1 blank), (1), (1 blank). Foxed. Contemporary calf, rubbed. 8vo

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