Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Four Chumashim - Zhitomir 1859 - Includes Sabbath Prayers (Nusach Sepharad)

Opening: $250
Sold for: $1,000
Including buyer's premium
Four volumes of the five books of the Torah, Bereshit-Bamidbar. With the Onkelos translation, Rashi commentary, and Ivri teitch (Yiddish). Zhitomir, 1859. Printed by Rabbi Chanina Lipa and Rabbi Yehoshua Heshel Shapira. Grandchildren of the Rabbi of Slavita. Volumes Shemot-Bamidbar, with Sabbath prayers (Nusach Sepharad).
Bereshit: [2], 3-213 leaves. Two title pages (missing leaves at the end, from the end of Parshat VaYechi). Shemot: [1], 3-186 leaves; 24 leaves. (Missing first title page, tear on the second title page). Vayikra: [1], 5-14 leaves: 23 leaves (first title page and last leaf of the prayers are missing). Bamidbar: [2], 5-168 leaves; 16 leaves.
4 volumes, approximately 20 cm. Thin high-quality paper. Fair condition, wear and tears. Stains. Old bindings with leather spine and embossments, damaged.
Books Printed in Slavita and Zhitomir
Books Printed in Slavita and Zhitomir