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5 volumes, 250:203 mm., heavy use and age staining, corners rounded, bound in modern full cloth boards.
Part I: 2-172; 8 ff., lacks initial title, initial 10 ff. torn with text loss. Part II: [2], 188; 13 ff., initial, final, 160-162 ff. with tears affecting letters. Part III: 135; 13, [1] ff., initial 3, final 2 ff. with tears affecting letters. Part IV: 145; 9 ff., initial 3, final 2 ff. with tears. Part V: 3-148; 8 ff., lacks initial 2 title ff. and 2 or 3 final ff. of prayer book, initial 3 and ff. 3-4 of prayer book torn with text loss, some foxing.
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Detailed
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The Pentateuch with several commentaries including the Ohr ha-Hayyim, this lot being the only Zhitomir edition to carry the commentary. Each volume contains at the end a full siddur in the Sephardic rite followed by a calendar.
In 1847 the Shapira printing press was established by the three brothers Hanina Lipa, Aryeh Leib, and Joshua Heschel Shapira, sons of R. Samuel Abraham Abba Shapira, the printer in Slavuta. Until 1862 this was one of the only two Hebrew presses the Russian government permitted to operate in the whole of Russia, the other being in Vilna. This press had 18 hand presses and four additional large presses. In 1851 Aryeh Leib broke away and established his own printing press in Zhitomir. In these two establishments only sacred books of every kind were printed.
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