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Netivot Tzion ViYerushalayim (Luntz) – Jerusalem, 1876 – With Folding Plate and Leaf with Dedication by Author

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Netivot Tzion ViYerushalayim, by scholar Avraham Moshe Luntz. Jerusalem: Yisrael Dov Frumkin, 1876. First edition. Additional title page in German.


At the end of the book appears a leaf with a picture of the Cave of Machpelah, along with a folding leaf with an illustration of Jerusalem, with marginal explanations on each place appearing in the picture. After the plate appears another folding leaf in orange, with a printed dedication filled out by hand and signed by the author, Avraham Moshe Luntz, to R. Yehudah Leib Levisohn, Rabbi of Stockholm, asking him to muster support for Part II of the book (which was never published) and asking R. Yehudah Leib Levisohn to send him one of his books.


28; 91 pages + [2] plates, one on folding leaf, [1] leaf. 15 cm. Dry, brittle paper. Overall good condition. Stains. Marginal tears and small marginal open tears to several leaves. Small marginal open tear to folding leaf, not affecting text, repaired with paper filling. New binding.
Sh. Halevy, no. 276 (last leaf with dedication by author not documented by Sh. Halevy).

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Early Books Printed in Jerusalem – Books and Booklets, Proclamations and Signed Letters
Early Books Printed in Jerusalem – Books and Booklets, Proclamations and Signed Letters