Juedisches Ceremoniel

Estimate: $1,500–$2,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

KIRCHNER, PAUL CHRISTIAN.

printer

Peter Conrad Monath

Place

Nürnberg

Publication

173(4)

Description

German text interspersed with Hebrew. 27 (of 28?) engraved plates of ceremonies and customs of 18th-century German-Jewish society. Title in red and black, additional engraved frontispiece

references

Rubens, Jewish Iconography nos. 539-67

summary

It is possible that our copy is not wanting a plate at all, but is complete as issued by the printer. According to the additional leaf pasted in by Peter Konrad Monath (preceding p.1), our copy contains "Sieben und Zwanzig Kupfern."

pp. (16), 226, (26). Browned and lightly waterstained, lacking pl. 16, few plates bound out of sequence. Needs rebinding. 4to

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