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Auction 51 · Lot 133

Birkath HaMazon - Dos Benschen. Text in Hebrew, with Yiddish translation. f. 71. * Bound with: Minhagim. ff. 61. Yiddish printed in waybertaytsch letters

Estimate
$1,200–$1,800
Hammer price
$1,700

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

author

(CEREMONIES)

printer

and Amsterdam, di Cordova, 1723

Place

Amsterdam, Proops, 1722

Description

Two works bound in one. Both according to the custom and rites of Germany and Poland. Both with many woodcut illustrations of Jewish ceremonial life

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1180 and 1210

summary

Two compendia that include Grace after Meals, Sabbath songs, prayers before retiring, birth, marriage and death observances, Hagadah for Passover, etc. The many illuminating woodcuts illustrate select holidays and through the annual religious and life-cycle
Browned and stained, few crude taped repairs, edges slightly frayed. Contemporary vellum, vellum. 4to
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