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The Position of Industry in Jerusalem – By a Woodworking Factory Manager – Jerusalem, 1878

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Matzav HaMelachah BiYerushalayim VeTikuno (The Position of Industry in Jerusalem and the Means for Ameliorating It), by Chaim Yaakov, manager of a factory for olive woodworking. Jerusalem: HaChavatzelet [Yisrael Dov Frumkin], 1878.
Additional title page in English on back cover.
The author recounts the events encountered by him and his partner as managers of their olive woodworking factory, and asks philanthropists and officials for loans for the factory and assistance in selling their products in Europe.


28 pages. With printed wrapper, front and back. Approx. 14 cm. Dry, brittle paper. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tears, including open tears affecting text, and open tears to front wrapper (wrapper mounted on paper). New leather binding.


Contains two additional pages (27-28) undocumented by Sh. Halevy and the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, and which do not appear in the copy in the NLI catalog, with a statement from the other partner (p. 27) and thanks and blessing to Emperor Franz Joseph I (p. 28).


Sh. Halevy, no. 309.

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