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

Estimate

$4,000–$5,000

Hammer price

$5,000

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

RAHABI, DAVID

printer

Joseph Proops

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1791

Description

FIRST EDITION. ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES. Printer’s device on title. Folding plate at end

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 2185

summary

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

ff.(1),18,(1). Lightly stained, modern boards, oblong 4to

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