Auction 57

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Calendar for the 6th millennium—Warsaw 1889. Handwritten notes

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Calendar for the 6th millennium, including laws relating to leap years, the calculations for setting the year, new moons, various tekufot and constellations, according to the calculations of Shmuel and of Rav Ada, printed in Warsaw. 70 leaves. Worming damage to a number of leaves. Stains, detached leaes, original binding is a little worn.

The blank binding leaf has a pretty monogram in the shape of a Star of David which creates the year 1929 (5689) and the letters Y.L. Signature of ownership on the title page: “Yehuda Zvi ben Chaim Eliezer shlita Liberman”. Throughout the calendar are handwritten notes with family dates from the son of the person who signed on the title page, such as “in 1915 I began to work at Netzach Yisrael in Haifa”, “my father died…”, and other personal details such as his wife’s death about 20 years after their wedding and the giving of his daughter to a wetnurse, and more.

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