Volume containing two polemical works opposing R. Akiva Yosef Schlesinger and his Beit Yosef Chadash.

1. Shomer Yisrael. Jerusalem: [Yoel Moshe Salomon, 1875].
Polemical work with several accusations against the author and his work, including Messianic claims and conspiration against the Ottoman authorities. Contains quotations from Beit Yosef Chadash and various letters from Jerusalem rabbis in favor of R. Schlesinger's opponents.

Sh. Halevy, no. 234.

2. [Nitutz HaBayit. Jerusalem: Y. D. Frumkin, 1875].
Copy without wrapper; the booklet Nitutz HaBayit (see previous lot).

Sh. Halevy no. 232, 244 (mistaken double listing, based on a copy without a wrapper, like the present copy; this mistake is repeated in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book and the NLI catalog). Describes the present booklet as "especially rare".

Both booklets in one volume. 8 pages, 24 leaves. Approx. 20 cm. Overall good condition. Stains. Small marginal tears to several leaves. New leather binding.