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Tractatus de Juribus Judaeorum / Von Recht der Juden. Worinnen von denen Gesetzen, denen sie unterworffen, deren Heyrathen, Contracten, Wucher, Testamenten. [“Laws of the Jews: Marriage, Contracts, Usury, Testaments”].

Auction 54 · Lot 68

Tractatus de Juribus Judaeorum / Von Recht der Juden. Worinnen von denen Gesetzen, denen sie unterworffen, deren Heyrathen, Contracten, Wucher, Testamenten. [“Laws of the Jews: Marriage, Contracts, Usury, Testaments”].

Estimate
$500–$700
Hammer price
Not recorded

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

author

BECK, JOHANNES JODOCUS.

printer

Georg Christoph Lochners

Place

Nürnberg

Publication

1731

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title in red and black with historiated initials.

summary

Engraved frontispiece with four illustrated vignettes depicting: Jewish Marriage Ceremony; Deathbed scene; Financial dealings; and Judicial death-sentence (see Rubens, Jewish Iconography 1394i-1394iv).
pp. (18), 603. Ex-library. Contemporary vellum. 4to.
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