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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 55 · Lot 182

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

Estimate
$2,000–$2,500
Hammer price
$3,400

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

author

(LITURGY).

printer

Typis Libanteis

Place

Verona

Publication

1826

Description

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 featuring sixty-four year calendar at end.

references

Vinograd, Verona 58.

summary

A Distinctive Illustrated Omer Chap-Book.
pp. (3), 77, 13. Original printed wrappers. 16mo.
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