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Ir David – Enumeration of Mitzvot and Other Halachot – Comprised of Sentences With Numerical Value of Year – Jerusalem, 1887
Ir David, comprising an enumeration of all negative and positive commandments, and various laws, by R. David Kohen of Vilna. Jerusalem: R. Y. D. Frumkin, 1887.
Comprised of sentences with the numerical value of the year of printing, 5747 (1887).
8; 96 pages. 16.5 cm. Dry paper. Good-fair condition. Stains. Open tear to title page, bordering title frame, and another small tear at top, repaired with paper. Light worming. Title page and several other pages faded. New leather binding.
R. David Kohen printed several similar books in the 1870s-1880s comprised of sentences with the numerical value of the year.
Sh. Halevy, no. 595.
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