Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Avodah Zarah, Zhitomir 1858 
תלמוד בבלי - מסכת עבודה זרה - Hasidic - Regal paper
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- Lot Number 47541
- Title (English) Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Avodah Zarah
- Title (Hebrew) תלמוד בבלי - מסכת עבודה זרה
- Note Hasidic - Regal paper
- City Zhitomir
- Publisher Hanina Lipa and Joshua Heschel Shapira
- Publication Date 1858
- Estimated Price - Low 300
- Estimated Price - High 600
- Item # 1386886
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Physical Description
Two titles, 2-99, [1], 14, 330-377 ff., folio, 375:233 mm., wide margins, light age damp staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary leather over boards, rubbed.
Regal paper copy.
Detail Description
Tractate of the famous hasidic edition of the Talmud. 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.
Reference
Not in CD-EPI; EJ