Auction 22 - Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters
Birkat HaMazon – Das Benshen (with Passover Haggadah and Illustrations) – Frankfurt am Main, 1729 – Bibliographically Unknown Edition
Opening: $300
Sold for: $813
Including buyer's premium
Birkat HaMazon – Das Benshen, according to Polish Ashkenaz custom. With Zemirot Shabbat and a Passover Hagadah. Hebrew-Teitsch explanations, drawings and wood etchings. Frankfurt am Main, [1729]. Shlomo Zalman Aptrod and Moshe Bamberg Printing in “Amsterdam letters”.
51 leaves (missing leaf 52), 20.5 cm. Fair-poor condition, wear damage with omission to text, stains, food and wine stains. (Original) worn leather binding.
Bibliographically unknown edition, no record in Otzar HaHaggadot and Ya’ari or in Bibliographic CDs. A different edition by the same printers appears in the Bibliography Institute CD record 0182592 and Otzar HaHaggadot record 159. The page count there, is: 15, 15-46, [1] leaves with the Passover Haggadah on leaves 30-45. In this copy, the Passover Haggadah appears on leaves 33/2 and 50/1, followed by Birkat HaNehenin ending on leaf 51/2 [missing additional leaf beginning with prayer Yehi Ratzon]. Layout and illustrations slightly differ from additional rare copy which appeared in Kedem catalogue, auction 19 item 122.
51 leaves (missing leaf 52), 20.5 cm. Fair-poor condition, wear damage with omission to text, stains, food and wine stains. (Original) worn leather binding.
Bibliographically unknown edition, no record in Otzar HaHaggadot and Ya’ari or in Bibliographic CDs. A different edition by the same printers appears in the Bibliography Institute CD record 0182592 and Otzar HaHaggadot record 159. The page count there, is: 15, 15-46, [1] leaves with the Passover Haggadah on leaves 30-45. In this copy, the Passover Haggadah appears on leaves 33/2 and 50/1, followed by Birkat HaNehenin ending on leaf 51/2 [missing additional leaf beginning with prayer Yehi Ratzon]. Layout and illustrations slightly differ from additional rare copy which appeared in Kedem catalogue, auction 19 item 122.
Passover Haggadot
Passover Haggadot