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: $700–$1,000
Hammer price: $550

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

author

(LITURGY)

printer

Typis Libanteis

Place

Verona

Publication

1826

Description

Hebrew and Italian. On title, engraving of Coliseum in Rome. Additional title with engraving of Father Time. Separate title for Sephirath ha-Omer with caricature of Sun and Moon, within typographic border. Each page with central decorative engraved vignette, with the Count of each Day (two to a page) above and below. Foldout sixty-four year calendar; missing portion supplied in manuscript

references

Vinograd, Verona 58

summary

A Distinctive Illustrated Omer Chap-Book For one other copy recorded, formerly in the Cecil Roth Collection, see EJ, Vol. XII, col. 1384 (illustrated)

pp.(4), 77, 12. Waterstained, pp. 30-1 torn with loss, pp. 38-9 torn with no loss, pp. 7-8 taped. Modern boards. 16mo

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