b'Lot 8 Lot 98ALSHEICH, MOSHE. Chavatzeleth HaSharon [commentary to the Book of Daniel, with text]. Second edition. ff.110. Previous owners marks. Modern morocco. Sm. 4to. [Vinograd, Venice 769.] Venice, Giovanni di Gara, 1592. $400 - $6009ALSHEICH, MOSHE. Maroth Hatzovoth [commentary to Former Prophets]. Second edition. Final leaf contains an approbation from R. Isaiah Horowitz (The Shloh Hakodosh). ff. 111. Browned and stained. Modern boards. Sm. folio. [Vinograd, Prague 289; Mehlman 634 (incomplete).] Prague, Moshe b. Betzalel Katz, 1620. $400 - $60010(AMERICAN-JUDAICA) The New Jamaica Almanack and Register, Calculated to the Meridian of the Island for the Year of our Lord 1796. On p. 15: Kalendar of Months, Sabbaths, and Holidays, which the Hebrewsor Jews Observe and Keep, for the Years 5556 and 5557 of the Creation.The names of the Jewish holidays and new months are noted in Englishand Hebrew. pp. 132 (i.e. 146), (14). Several blank leaves inserted, a few withmanuscript notes recording payments to Miss Moseley, 1804-6. Browned, somestaining, faint ink-stamp on title. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf with folding closure,worn. 8vo.Saint Jago de la Vega (Spanish Town, Jamaica), David Dickson for Thomas Stevenson, Kingston, 1795. $3000 - $5000 Almanacs issued in Jamaica included a page featuring the Jewishcalendar from as early as 1776, which would seem to be an indicationof the importance of Jewish residents in the eyes of Christian Jamaicans(see B. W. Korn, The Haham DeCordova of Jamaica, in: AmericanJewish Archives 18.2 (Nov. 1966) p. 141 n.2).These Jamaican calendars represent the veryEARLIEST APPEARANCEOF HEBREW FONT IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE,in a publication intendedspecically for Jews. Earlier works with Hebrew type, such as JudahMoniss Hebrew Grammar, were intended for a Gentile audience.It is interesting to note that the rst Hebrew calendar on the Americancontinent was not printed until 1851 (Singerman S463).ForanarticlediscussingtheNationalLibraryof IsraelscopyofTheNewJamaicaAlmanack,see https://blog.nli.org.il/en/jamaican-almanac/?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%20English%20Newsletter%2004.09.2019&_atscid=3_2269_139352510_9860674_0_Tz3j3fxfz3da8a2s2da.4'