Lot 74
"Der Vollständige Landadvokat" – Legal Handbook, With Texts of Jewish Marital Contracts – Brünn, 1799 – Bound with "Melechet Machshevet" – Zhovkva, 1837
Der Vollständige Landadvokat. Two parts (separate title page for each part). Brünn, 5559 [1799]. German in Hebrew characters.
A handbook of legal advice related to petitions, contracts, taxes, debts, powers of attorney, wills and inheritances, and more. An addendum at the end of Part II features texts of Jewish marital contracts and agreements ("tenaim rishonim" and "tenaim achronim" contracts, ketubah and tosefet ketubah, chalitzah agreement and "shtar chatzi zachar"). This handbook was first printed in German, in several editions published in Brünn in the 1790s. The present edition – a transcription of the German text into Hebrew letters – was published for the benefit of German Jews.
• Bound with : "Melechet Machshevet", a textbook on mathematics [by Rabbi Moses Zerah Eidlitz]. Zhovkva, 1837. Hebrew.
"Melechet Machshevet": 4, 4, 13-44 ff. Der Vollständige Landadvokat: 150 pp. 18.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including large dampstains. Creases and wear. Worming, affecting text. Edges trimmed unevenly; some pages trimmed close to text. Handwritten notation on last leaf. Missing front board. Back board detached. Open tears to spine.
