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

(LITURGY)

Mantua

(1740)

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

Vinograd, Mantua 381(erroneous pagination)

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.”