Bidspirit auction | Chanoch LaNa’ar and Lashon Zahav,

Chanoch LaNa’ar and Lashon Zahav, Also Called Michtam LeDavid – Two Manuals of Letter Writing and Penmanship in One Volume. Amsterdam, [1734–1743]. Hebrew and Yiddish. Rare - Two rare and important parts of instructional works on writing, composition, and correspondence, bound together in a single volume, each with its own separate title page. Printed in Amsterdam by Shlomo Katz Proops, and later by the Orphans of Shlomo Proops Katz, among the foremost Hebrew printers of the city. These works reflect a vibrant Jewish world of commerce, family life, education, and literary culture, and are among the most fascinating sources for understanding the daily life of Ashkenazic Jewry in the eighteenth century. Printed in flowing Ashkenazic script type, designed in the style of handwritten letters, a distinctive and uncommon typographic format that gives the books an especially vivid and authentic character. The author’s name, Rabbi Yosef Marsen, appears in the introduction. First Part: Chanoch LaNa’ar A practical and comprehensive manual intended to teach youths and merchants the fundamentals of proper writing and correspondence. Includes: principles of fine handwriting useful abbreviations multiplication tables and numbers model letters between friends commercial correspondence promissory note formulas a collection of proverbs a short Yiddish–Yiddish glossary In this section, the author’s name does not appear on the title page. Second Part: Lashon Zahav, Also Called Michtam LeDavid A second epistolary manual, rich in elegant phrasing, containing model letters and blessings for Jewish life-cycle occasions, including: letters between bridegroom and bride, and between in-laws blessings for a circumcision and pidyon haben wedding invitations formulas for opening and closing letters refined expressions and literary phrases for dignified correspondence Before us is an extremely rare edition of an important and captivating two-part work, serving as a living witness to the writing culture, language, and social life of European Jewry. [5], 35, 35–66 pages. [3], 60 pages. 17 cm. Condition: Good to very good. Age stains. Plain modern binding.