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Lot #    25539
Auction End Date    1/12/2010 10:41:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Tractate Avodah Zara
Title (Hebrew)    תלמוד בבלי עבודה זרה
Author    [Hasidic]
City    Zhitomir
Publisher    Hanina Lipa & Joshua Hoeschel Shapira
Publication Date    1858
          
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Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
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Description		    [2 titles], 2-99, [1], 14; 287-332, 2-62, 330-378 ff., 358:215 mm., light age staining, trimmed margins. A good copy bound in modern cloth boards.
          
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Description		    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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