This sale is the third offering by Kestenbaum & Company of Rare Books from the Judaica library of the late Arthur A. Marx.
The auction is divided as follows:
Rare Hebrew Books: Lots 1 - 125.
Jerusalem / Eretz Israel imprints: Lots 126 - 155.
Anglo-Judaica: Lots 156 - 163.
American-Judaica: Lots 164 - 217.
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LOT 20:
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(CEREMONIES).
Minhagim.
Prepared by Shimon HaLevi Günzburg.
Title within elaborate architectural frame. With thirty-one beautiful full-size woodcut vignettes illustrating scenes from Jewish ritual life and practice (few repeats); twelve smaller woodcuts representing the twelve signs of the zodiac/labors of the months.
ff. 72. Scattered staining, browned and thumbed, lower-outer corner of f. 8 repaired and upper-outer corner of f. 21 lacking, few tears, scattered small repairs. Contemporary sheep, scuffed, worn, rebacked, and partially repaired at outer corners, new endpapers. Sm. 4to.
Vinograd, Amsterdam 291.
Amsterdam, Uri Phoebus ben Aaron HaLevi, 1662.
This edition of Günzburg’s Minhagim constitutes a reprint of the celebrated 1645 issue published at the press of Menasseh ben Israel.
