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Bamidbar, With Commentary of the Or HaChaim and Shabbat Prayers – Zhitomir, 1854 – Two Title Pages

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Book of Bamidbar, with Targumim and commentaries of Rashi, Baal HaTurim and Or HaChaim, and commentaries of the Chida on the Torah, Haftarot and Five Megillot, with Shabbat prayers. Zhitomir: R. Chanina Lipa and R. Yehoshua Heshel Shapiro, grandsons of the rabbi of Slavita, 1854.
At the end of the volume are printed Sephardic-rite Shabbat prayers.
On last leaf, chart of moladot (1854-1882).


[2], 3-145; 9, [1] leaves. 25 cm. Dark title pages. Fair condition; some leaves in middle of book in good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear and creases. Tears, including large open tears to first title page and open tear to second title page, affecting title frames and text. First title page detached. Many tears and creases to last leaf. Handwritten inscriptions and stamps. Old binding, worn and damaged, with repaired spine (late printed prayer leaves mounted on front and back board).


This part is not recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book and does not appear in the NLI catalogue.

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Books Printed in Slavita and Zhitomir, and Books Printed in Russia-Poland
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