Auction 113
Illustrious Personalities, Holocaust & Anti-Semitism, Historic Documents, Art, Seforim, Letters from Rabbis and Rebbes & manuscripts
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Apr 8, 2019
3 Shatner Center 1st Floor Givat Shaul Jerusalem, Israel
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LOT 31:
Calendar with Illustrations of the Zodiac (Ashkenaz c. 1800?)
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Sold for: $300
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Estimated price :
$500 - $700
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Calendar with Illustrations of the Zodiac (Ashkenaz c. 1800?)
Calendar leaf with the names of the weekly Torah portions, the times of the new moon, the recognized festivals and dozens of unknown ones ["Poilish Teg," "All Photographers," "Beginning of Dogs' Days," "New Woman," "Last Woman and Eyes Lighten Market" and many more]. With commentary and additions in Hebrew and Deutsch-Yiddish. Engraved illustrations of the twelve signs of the Zodiac on both sides of the leaf. Printed by Rabbi Wolf Levi's successors, [Frankfurt, 18th century].
This calendar does not appear in the National Library and is not listed by the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book.
[1] leaf of thick, deluxe paper. 33x43 cm. Moderate-fine condition. Professional restoration. Several tears and tiny holes. Cropped upper margins. Erasures.
