Bidspirit auction | (CEREMONIES). Minhagim. Prepared by Shimon

(CEREMONIES). Minhagim. Prepared by Shimon HaLevi Günzburg. Yiddish text. Title within elaborate architectural frame (after the 1645 edition) surrounded by decorative devices; thirty-one beautiful full-size woodcut vignettes illustrating scenes from Jewish ritual life and practice (some of them repeats); twelve smaller woodcuts representing the twelve signs of the zodiac/labors of the months. ff. 61. Slight scattered staining (more intense on f. 35v); upper edge cropped, often affecting headlines; small repair near outer margin of f. 40, affecting a few letters. Modern gilt-tooled maroon calf; title lettered in gilt on spine. Housed in a modern blind-tooled maroon calf slipcase, lined with green velvet; lettering piece with place and date on spine. 4to. Vinograd, Amsterdam 1210. Amsterdam, Isaac di Cordova & Hertz Levi Rofe, 1723. Isaac Hezekiah de Cordova, scion of a family of Sephardic printers with roots in Spain and Constantinople, published Jewish works in Amsterdam from about 1706 until his passing twenty years later, excepting a brief sojourn in Hamburg in the 1710’s. Together with the physician, bookseller, and intellectual Naphtali Herz Levi Rofe (Hartog Alexander van Embden; 1696-1767), he produced the present Minhogim using much the same layout as the Proops version of 1707 but with new woodcuts. Interestingly, while previous editions had set off Hebrew words within the semi-cursive Yiddish text by using a square typeface, this title, from quire two through ten, accomplishes the same effect by printing most Hebrew words in vaybertaytsh font but surrounding them with parentheses – a practice adopted by other Yiddish printers as well.