Luchoth ha-Ibur [Tables of intercalation of the Jewish calendar]

LEVI, RAPHAEL OF HANNOVER

Lusac / Schlitter

Leiden / Hannover

1756-7

FIRST EDITION. Two parts in one volume. Separate title for Part II. Numerous astronomical tables

Vinograd, Leiden 62 (Vinograd did not have the additional page before the title), Hannover 1; Fuks, Leiden 80

Verso of title with author’s copyright announcing that all authentic copies must be signed by him. There is an inaccuracy in Fuks, who writes: “We are uncertain as to why he [the Author] had the first part of the work published by the Leiden printer Johannes Luzac in 1756; in the following year the second part, printed with the same types, appeared in Hannover” (Fuks, Hebrew Typography in the Northern Netherlands 1585-1815 [1984], p. 14). In our copy of the book the two parts, one printed in Leiden, the other in Hanover, are indeed printed in two very different types