Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures

Statutes of the Ashkenazic Chevra Kadisha – Amsterdam, 1776 – Original Binding, Copy of Treasurer

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Statutes of the Gemilut Chasadim Chevra Kadisha of the Ashkenazic community in Amsterdam, comprising statutes and customs, list of members and more. Amsterdam: Yaakov Proops, [1776]. Hebrew and Yiddish (in Tzenah URenah font).
Title page illustrated with bones, skulls and undertakers' tools. Part of illustration appears later within book. All leaves have text within a printed frame.
Original leather binding, with gilt decorations, and gilt inscription of owner's name on front of binding: "F[irst] treasurer [Yocha]nan Bing", apparently the person whose name appears first on the list of treasurers printed in the book.

[1], 27 leaves. 16.5 cm. High-quality paper. Good condition. Stains. Tear to title page, affecting frame, repaired with tape to verso. Original leather binding, with gilt decorations. Defects to binding.
Dutch Jewry – Documents, Manuscripts and Printed Works
Dutch Jewry – Documents, Manuscripts and Printed Works