Bidspirit auction | (CEREMONIES). Birchath Hamazon - Dos

(CEREMONIES). Birchath Hamazon - Dos Benshen [compendium of selected festive rites]. According to the custom of Germany and Poland. Title with woodcut typographic border. With many woodcut illustrations and historiated initial letters. Hebrew, with Judeo-German translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type ff. 71. Ex-library, foxed, stained in places, neat marginal repair to title, lacking lower portion of f.49, previous owners signature on title. Later half-morocco marbled boards, rubbed, covers starting. 4to. Vinograd, Amsterdam 1180. Amsterdam, Solomon Proops, 1722. Compendium including Grace after Meals, Sabbath hymns, prayers before retiring, Birth, Marriage and Death services, concluding with an Hagadah for Passover.  The illuminating woodcuts illustrate selected holidays and observances through the annual religious cycle. The prototype of these images was Menasseh ben Israel’s Sepher Minhagim of 1645.