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Shaarei Dimah – Prayers for Holy Sites – Jerusalem, 1885 - Printed by Avraham Moshe Luntz – Original Wrapper
Shaarei Dimah, prayers and bakashot for the Western Wall and gravesites of tzaddikim by R. Shmuel, Rabbi of Dolhynov (Dawhinava) and Ilya. Jerusalem: Avraham Moshe Luntz, 1885.
Original printed orange front and back wrapper, with bibliographical descriptions of the present edition as compared to previous editions of the book, and of Avraham Moshe Luntz's new printing press, in Hebrew and Ladino.
Original elegant leather binding, with engraving on front of owner's name and his signature on title page, and another signature on endpaper.
[1], 40, [1] leaves. Includes original orange printed wrapper. Good condition. Stains. Stains and light damage to wrapper. Worming in one place on front wrapper. Original leather binding. Wear and damage to binding.
A bilingual Hebrew-Yiddish edition was printed the same year (see previous lot).
Sh. Halevy, no. 534 (she does not record the wrapper).
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