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Printed Leaf – Hod Malchut Melech Yerushalayim – Blessing and Request on the Visit of Emperor Franz Joseph – Jerusalem, Ca. 1869

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Printed leaf, Hod Malchut Melech Yerushalayim, blessings for Emperor Franz Joseph on his visit to Jerusalem, with a personal request by R. Bentzion Shlez. [Jerusalem: printer not indicated, ca. 1869].


Blessings for Emperor Franz Joseph, with a special request from R. Bentzion Shlez for the emperor to grant him an audience and accept a poem he had printed in his honor and several books mentioning the emperor's name, after the poem was presented to the emperor on his previous visit to Jerusalem but no response was received.


[1] leaf. 18 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Open tears, including marginal tear, repaired with paper filling. New binding.


Not recorded by Sh. Halevy or in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book. In the NLI catalog this leaf appears as part of a three-leaf booklet.

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