Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 107

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
[MENDELSSOHN, MOSES.] Ritualgesetze der Juden, betreffend Erbschaften, Vormundschaftssachen, Testamente und Ehesachen, in so weit sie das Mein und Dein angehen. [12], xxii, 267, [5] pages, including 2 leaves of errata at end. Small 8vo, contemporary boards, spine ends chipped, covers worn through along fore edges; contents browned. Berlin: Christian Friedrich Voss, 1778

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first edition. "Upon the request of the chief rabbi of Berlin, Zevi Hirsch Levin, Mendelssohn provided the authorities with a German summary of the laws of matrimony connected with the rights of possession, which were then transferred from the jurisdiction of the rabbinical tribunals to that of the civil courts"--EJ XI, 1333.