RAHABI, DAVID. Ohel David [on the calendar]

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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Lot 207

(INDIA)

RAHABI, DAVID. Ohel David [on the calendar]

FIRST EDITION. ONE OF ONLY FIFTY COPIES. Astronomical and chronological tables. Folding plate at end. Wide margins ff.(1), 18, (1). Ex-library. Title taped, browned. Modern boards. Oblong 4to Vinograd, Amsterdam 2185

Amsterdam: Joseph Proops 1791

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,200

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. During the years of Dutch rule in Malabar (1663-1795) the Rahabi Family undertook to supply the Jewish community of Cochin with all its literary needs by way of the Proops Family of printers in Amsterdam. Friedberg, (Aleph 873), notes only fifty copies were printed of this study on the origin of the Hebrew calendar and its comparison with the Hindu and Muslim calendric systems