Le Seul Almanach des Dieux, Pour L’Année M.DCC.XXII. Rempli de choses trés-curieuses & trés-utiles pour la Santé.
AUCTION 8 |
Tuesday, November 16th,
1999 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art
Lot 227
(ALMANAC)
Le Seul Almanach des Dieux, Pour L’Année M.DCC.XXII. Rempli de choses trés-curieuses & trés-utiles pour la Santé.
Bordeaux: Pierre Calamy (1722)
Est: $2,000 - $2,500
PRICE REALIZED $1,700
A charming regional almanac containing weather predictions, remedies for the plague, astrological prognostications for the months, gardening ideas, births and deaths of French monarchs and nobility, a calendar of parliament meetings and country fairs, a table of currency conversions and interest calculatons, a list of the tides, and a calender of mail deliveries.
The first two leaves present an account of the coronation at Ferrara on 2 August 1721 of Felix Coën as “King of the Jewish Nation” by the rabbi. This event is depicted in the fold-out plate with costume and scenery in a suitably ancient style. Interestingly, 1721 also happens to be the year in which a charge of “blood libel” was leveled against the Jewish community in Ferrara