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Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah – Printed by Rabbi Moshe Shapiro – Slavita, 1820 – Copy of Rebbe Avraham Pinchas Sefard / Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim – Slavita, 1827
Two parts of Shulchan Aruch with commentaries including Eshel Avraham, printed in Slavita (Slavuta) by R. Moshe Shapiro between 1820-1827.
* Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah with Be'er HaGolah, Baer Heitev and Eshel Avraham by R. Avraham Oppenheim. [Slavita: R. Moshe Shapiro, the rabbi of Slavita, 1820 – missing title page and other leaves].
Copy of Rebbe Avraham Pinchas Sefard, with his stamp on leaf 1: "Avraham Pinchas Sefard – Ostroh".
Rebbe Avraham Pinchas Sefard of Kuniv (d. 1950), a leading American rebbe, a descendant of R. Yaakov Yosef (Rav Yeibi) of Ostroh.
Early stamp on leaf 90.
[1], 172; 200, 205-223 leaves. Missing 8 leaves: First [3] leaves, leaves 201-204, and last leaf. 20.5 cm. Bluish paper. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear to some leaves. Worming. Small tears and open tears, affecting text of several leaves, partially repaired with paper filling. New binding.
Part I of a complete edition of Shulchan Aruch printed by R. Moshe Shapiro between 1820-1822.
* Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim, with Be'er HaGolah and Baer Heitev and Eshel Avraham commentary by R. Avraham Oppenheim. Slavita: R. Moshe Shapiro, the rabbi of Slavita, [1827].
Some letters on title page in red ink.
[4], 156, 177-294 leaves. 21 cm. Bluish paper. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains and dark ink stains to title page and several other leaves. Wear. Tears and open tears to title page and other leaves, affecting text (large open tear affecting text on leaf 68, with torn part of leaf, detached). Damage to title page, affecting name of printer in title. Inscriptions and scribbles. Old binding, with back side and spine detached.
Evidently only this part was printed as part of this edition.
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