[JUDAICA]. BODENSCHATZ, Johann Christoph Georg. Kirchliche Verfassung der heutigen Juden sonderlich derer in Deutschland. Frankfurt, Leipzig, Erlangen and Coburg: widow of J.F. Becker and G. Otto for the author, 1748-49. 4 parts in 2 volumes bound in one, 4o. Titles printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece and 29 plates by and after I.C. Müller and G. Eichler. (Scattered marginal dampstaining, affecting the corners of images on two plates.) Contemporary half-vellum (some wear, spine punctured). FIRST EDITION of this important historical source for Jewish life in Germany in the mid-eighteenth century. Bodenschatz, a prominent Protestant theologian, describes contemporary Jewish customs faithfully and without prejudice. Graesse I, 459 'Ouvrage curieux'.