Physical Description:

First edition. Frontispiece, [3], 100 pp., quarto, 230:145 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original cloth over boards, rubbed on edges.

Detailed Description:   

Title: Nieto's Jewish almanac for one hundred years. from new year 5663/1902 to 5763/2002 showing the new moons, festivals and fasts, with the sections of the law as read in the synagogues every Sabbath in the year. also the first and last days of the solar month, with their corresponding Hebrew dates and pages for family registers.

One table for each year, plus blank pages at end to record births, marriages, and death. "In publishing this almanac, the compiler is only resuming the work so ably begun and carried on by his family for nearly two centuries. The illustrious Haham David Nieto, being a profound astronomer, established the form of calendar now followed by Jews in all parts of the world. His calendar was published in 1718. Haham Isaac Nieto, his son and successor in office, published an almanac for 22 years-from 1740-1762. Phineas, son of the latter, published his almanac for 47 years-from 1791-1838. This was the famous Nieto's Almanac so much enquired for. The good work is now resumed by one of the Nieto family, who publishes this almanac for 100 years-from New Year 1902-2002."

R. Abraham Haim Nieto, was the fourth lineal descendant of the Rev. David Nieto, first Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation in London. He served in London as shochet, Kingston, Jamica as cantor and New York.