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Auction 60 · Lot 213

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]

Estimate
$500–$700
Hammer price
Not recorded

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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.

references

Vinograd, Verona 58.
pp. (3), 77, 13, lacks folding plate at end, ex-library, stains. Contemporary calf with recent spine labels. 16mo.
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