Auction 54 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Sha'arei Zion - Zhitomir, 1856

Opening: $400
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
Sha'arei Zion, prayers and revisions, with appended works: Tikun Se'uda and Sefer Yetzirah, by R. Nathan Neta Hannover. Zhitomir, 1856. Printing press of R. Aryeh Leib Shapira grandson of the Slavita Rabbi.
On a page preceding the title page is a stamp of R. "Aharon Mendel son of R. N. HaCohen" - Safed (Rabbi of Cairo who renewed the semicha ritual) and ownership inscriptions.
275, 277-392 pages (mispagination). Approximately 18 cm. Condition varies among the leaves, fair-good. Some leaves are heavily stained and worn. Worming (affecting the text of some leaves). Contemporary worn damaged binding.
Books printed in Slavita and Zhitomir, Books printed in Russia and Poland
Books printed in Slavita and Zhitomir, Books printed in Russia and Poland