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Babylonian Talmud, Five Tractates, Zhitomir 1860

תלמוד בבלי - מסכת בכורות, ערכין, כריתות, תמורה, מעילה-תמיד - Hasidic

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  • Lot Number 47712
  • Title (English) Babylonian Talmud, Five Tractates
  • Title (Hebrew) תלמוד בבלי - מסכת בכורות, ערכין, כריתות, תמורה, מעילה-תמיד, הלכות בכורות וחלה
  • Note Hasidic - Regal Paper
  • City Zhitomir
  • Publisher Hanina Lipa and Joshua Heschel Shapira
  • Publication Date 1860
  • Estimated Price - Low 300
  • Estimated Price - High 600

  • Item # 1400763
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Physical Description

Two titles,  [2], 2-87; 37; 35; 31; 41, 5, [3]; [2], 88  ff., large folio, 384:245 mm., wide margins, light age and damp staining, stamps, regal paper. A very good copy bound in contemporary full leather over boards, rubbed, later spine.

Detail Description

A 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.

 

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