A Lunar Calendar, of the Festivals and Other Days in the Year Observed by the Israelites

AUCTION 2 | Tuesday, June 03rd, 1997 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art Including Property from a Dutch Private Collector and the Late T. Nachum Gidal

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Lot 193
(AMERICAN JUDAICA). LOPEZ, MOSES.

A Lunar Calendar, of the Festivals and Other Days in the Year Observed by the Israelites

Manuscript page tipped in at end Browned, contemporary calf, extremeties scuffed, backstrip repaired. 8vo Singerman 163

Newport: Printed at the Office of the Newport Mercury 1806

Est: $2,000 - $2,500
PRICE REALIZED $3,000
The first Jewish Calendar published in the United States. The calendar, which covers the years 1805-1859, received the approbation of Gershom Mendes Seixas, Hazan of Congregation Shearith Israel, New York