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Bidding Information
Lot #    15022
Auction End Date    7/18/2006 10:50:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Luach Ha-Ïttim: Zeittafel
Title (Hebrew)    לוח העתים
Author    [Only Ed.] Hch. Schlesinger
City    Creuznach
Publisher    Im Selbstverlage des Verfassers
Publication Date    1861
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. viii, 211, [4] pp., 210: 132 mm. wide margins, light age staining, stamps, plates. A very good copy bound in contemporary half cloth and marbled paper over boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Title: Luach Ha-Ïttim: Zeittafel der biblischen und nachbiblischen Geschichter der Juden von der Erschaffung der Welt bis zum jahre 5560, (dem Anfange des 19. jahrhunderts üblicher Zeitrechnung).

A chronology of the Jewish people from the beginning of the world until the year 5560 (which is equivalent to 1800). The text is entirely in German, with the secular and Hebrew dates on opposite sides of the page. The pages following page 211 contain: 1) words of praise for the work, 2) an afterword by the author and 3) a list of printing errors.

The author also wrote Chronologisches Handbuch zur Geschichte der Juden mit kurz gefasster Darstellung der wichtigste (Berlin, 1872).
          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
Other:    Calendar
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German, some Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica