(Nieto, David). Binah La’Itim.

(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

n.p.

London

1718

Hebrew text. On title, contemporary signature of former owner: “Aryeh Leib ben Itzik Cohen”.

Vinograd, London 30a.

First Hebrew Calendar Printed in London - Of Extreme Rarity. This calendar records not only the New Moons, Festivals and Fasts for the years 5478-5561 (1718-1801), but also lunar and solar eclipses in the years 5478-5501 (1718-1741). David Nieto (1654-1728), Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese community of London, was a noted astronomer. Nieto was the first to fix the times for the commencement of the Sabbath for the latitude of England. His calendar would serve the London Jewish community as a guide for Sabbaths and festivals well into the 19th-century. See JE, Vol. IX pp. 302-3; EJ, Vol. XII cols. 1152-3. This work is extremely rare. WorldCat records but a single copy in the University of London Library.