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(CEREMONIES). Birchath Hamazon - Dos Benshen [compendium of selected prayers and festive rites]. According to the custom of Poland and Germany. Woodcut Illustrations.  Title and many initial letters historiated. With Judeo-German translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type. ff. 47 (i.e. 48). Lightly browned, thumbed in places, lower portion of f.13 supplied in facsimile. Later vellum. 4to. Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 465. Frankfurt a/Main, Shlomo Zalman Apterod & Moshe Gamburg, 1727. Compendium including Grace after Meals, Sabbath hymns, prayers before retiring, birth, marriage and death services, concluding with an Hagadah for Passover. These Frankfurt 'Minhagim-style' illustrations are notably different from the Amsterdam mold.  Primitively wrought, they carry a rather striking angularity in their starkness.