Ohel David [on the Calendar, with astronomical and chronological tables]

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 335

RAHABI, DAVID

Ohel David [on the Calendar, with astronomical and chronological tables]

FIRST EDITION. ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES. Printer’s device on title. Folding plate at end ff.(1),18,(1). Lightly stained, modern boards, oblong 4to Vinograd, Amsterdam 2185

Amsterdam: Joseph Proops 1791

Est: $4,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $5,000

The author was a leader of the Jewish community in Cochin, India and son of the great Ezekiel Rahabi, influential merchant throughout the Malabar Coast and chief representative of the Dutch East India Company. Throughout the years of Dutch rule in Malabar (1663-1795) the Rahabi Family undertook to supply the Cochini Jews with all its literary needs by way of the Proops Family of printers in Amsterdam. Friedberg, Aleph 873 notes only 50 copies were printed of this study on the origin of the Hebrew calendar and its comparison with the Hindu and Muslim calendar systems