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Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
HORSE TRADING IN YIDDISH REIZENSTEIN, WOLF EHRENFRIED VON, Baron. Der vollkommene Pferde-Kenner. 28 folding engraved plates. [26], 176, [42]; 176, [14] pages, including engraved additional title. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, contemporary boards, slightly soiled; old stamps on letterpress title, scattered light marginal dampstains on text leaves, plates clean. handsome copy. Uffenheim: Joh. Simon Meyer, 1764
first edition of a comprehensive equestrian manual with sections on the general characteristics of horses, horse buying, breeding, riding, training, grooming, veterinary care, and horse tack, and a bibliography listing over 40 works from the 16th century onward. significant for yiddish historical linguistics is the 36-page appendix to part one, which contains a glossary of over 1500 transliterated Yiddish and Hebrew terms and 5 sample dialogues intended to aid non-Jews in understanding the horse trade dialect used by Jews. Commerce in livestock was a predominantly Jewish occupation in Central and Eastern Europe; see EJ XI, 411-12.
