Seder Ma’ariv Bizmanah VeSeder Sephirath Ha’omer [evening prayer with the order of the Counting of the Omer]

AUCTION 8 | Tuesday, November 16th, 1999 at 1:00

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Seder Ma’ariv Bizmanah VeSeder Sephirath Ha’omer [evening prayer with the order of the Counting of the Omer]

Title within woodcut border. Contemporary tan calf, gilt extra, covers tooled with initials “IDR,” a.e.g. Housed in contemporary calf fitted box with pull-off lid. Final ff.9 with additional Hebrew prayers in an 18th-century Italian hand ff. (43). Mispaginated though complete Lightly stained. 24mo Vinograd, Mantua 381(erroneous pagination)

Mantua: (1740)

Est: $1,500 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $3,750

Exceptionally charming little volume, beautifully bound. With a sweetly written Italian notation by an 18th-century owner, Isaac della Rocca, noting the price paid, “should this book stray, a reward will come to him who returns it to its rightful owner.”