Ephemeris Haebraica - Lu’ach shel Samech-Daleth Shanim [Sixty-Four Year Calendar]. Includes: Sephirath Ha’Omer [Order of the Counting of the Days of the Omer]

AUCTION 63 | Thursday, November 13th, 2014 at 1:00

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Ephemeris Haebraica - Lu’ach shel Samech-Daleth Shanim [Sixty-Four Year Calendar]. Includes: Sephirath Ha’Omer [Order of the Counting of the Days of the Omer]

Hebrew and Italian (with separate title-pages.) On Hebrew title, engraving of Coliseum in Rome. Additional title with engraving of Father Time surrounded by Hebrew quotation “Hayom Katzer VeHaMelacha Meruba…” (based upon Ethics of the Fathers II:20). Separate title for Sephirath Ha’Omer with caricature of Sun and Moon, each page with central decorative engraved charming vignette, with the Count of each Day (two to a page) above and below. Large foldout sheet (14.4 x 8.75 in.) featuring sixty-four year calendar at end. pp. (4), (1), 77, 13. Light stains. Contemporary wrappers. 16mo. Vinograd, Verona 58.

Verona: Typis Libanteis 1826

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

<<AN ATTRACTIVE, Distinctive Illustrated Omer ChapBook.>> This complete copy has a page not recorded by Vinograd. For one other copy recorded, formerly in the Cecil Roth Collection, see EJ, Vol. XII, col. 1384 (illustrated).