Part II of II. 221 ff., folio, 383:237 mm., wide margins, usual light age and damp staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary full leather over boards, rubbed.

Regal paper.

The Shulhan Arukh, Yore Deah, Part II, with several important commentaries. This volume, which covers all laws of gentiles, niddah and other subjects, was and continues to be heavily studied in scholarly academies.

In 1847 the Shapira printing press was established by the three brothers Hanina Lipa, Aryeh Leib, and Joshua Heschel Shapira, sons of 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. During the years 1858–64 the press of the two brothers printed a beautiful edition of the Babylonian Talmud together with the Halakhot of Isaac Alfasi, while between 1860 and 1867 Aryeh Leib printed an edition of the Jerusalem Talmud.

Hebrew Description

... הטורי זהב ... והשפתי כהן ... באר הגולה ... נקודות הכסף ... פרי חדש ושאר גאונים ... הפרי מגדים על חלק ראשון [על-פי דפוס זיטאמיר תרי"ב]... הוספנו הגהת הט"ז ... מבעל המחבר ז"ל אשר נמצא ספון באמתחתו שהגיה ... ספרו אחר הדפסתו. גם הצגנו ספר דגול מרבבה על הגליון [על-פי דפוס סלאוויטא תקצ"ג-תקצ"ד] ... חלק א-ב.

שם הספר ומקום הדפוס בדיו אדומה.
חלק א: סי' א-קכב. תרכ"א. [8], 408 עמ'.
חלק ב: סי' קכג-תג. תרכ"ב. 442 עמ'. ספירת דפים משובשת.

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