Auction 96 Early Printed Books, Chassidut and Kabbalah, Books Printed in Jerusalem, Letters and Manuscripts

Amud HaYirah VeAmud HaTorah – Polemical Periodical by Rabbi Akiva Yosef Schlesinger – Jerusalem, 1879

Opening: $300
Sold for: $688
Including buyer's premium

Amud HaYirah VeAmud HaTorah, polemical monthly periodical by R. Akiva Yosef Schlesinger – Adar 1879. Jerusalem: Yitzchak Gościnny and partners, 1879.
Monthly periodical published from Tishrei to Adar 1879, containing articles, laws and news from settlements in Eretz Israel.
The present item is issue 7, the last issue and the only one to be printed with a title page. The booklet Amud HaYirah printed one month later (Jerusalem, Nisan 1879, see next lot) may have been intended as a continuation of the series, but no further continuation was published.


8 pages. 17.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Open tears on all leaves, affecting title frame and text in several places, repaired with paper filling. Two detached leaves. New leather binding.


Sh. Halevy, no. 329.

Early Hebrew Books and Broadsides Printed in Jerusalem
Early Hebrew Books and Broadsides Printed in Jerusalem