Auction 70 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Chumash Bamidbar, With the Or HaChaim Commentary - Slavita, 1832

Opening: $500
Sold for: $1,125
Including buyer's premium
Chumash Bamidbar, Part IV of the Five Books of the Torah, with Rashi commentary and Targumim and with the Or HaChaim commentary by R. Chaim ibn Attar. Slavita: R. Shmuel Avraham Shapira, [1832].
Title page printed in red and black.
Reputedly, "R. Pinchas of Korets… commanded his sons [=R. Moshe Shapira rabbi of Slavita, and his brother R. Yechezkel Shapira, who was also involved in the establishment of the Slavita printing press] to print the Or HaChaim book every year… and they will thereby be saved from calamity and misfortune, and they fulfilled his directive, yet after the books of the Or HaChaim became so prevalent that they could no longer find buyers for them, they stopped printing them, and that year the infamous slander and misfortune occurred" (Migdal Oz, p. 268). (Nowadays, only seven editions of the Slavita Or HaChaim Chumash are bibliographically known, printed between 1791-1832).
162 leaves. 25 cm. Printed in part on bluish paper. Good condition. Stains and wear. Small tears in few places. New binding.
Books Printed in Slavita, Józefów and Zhitomir
Books Printed in Slavita, Józefów and Zhitomir