Lot 267
Sefer HaYashar – Kolkata, 1843
Sefer HaYashar, stories of the Parshiot of the Torah according to Midrashim and additional sources. Unknown author. Kolkata, [1843].
Variant. Bibliography Institute CD lists a copy in which leaves 9-17 were printed in a different format, whereas leaves 18-24 do not exist; it is assumed that these leaves were lost or burned and replaced with others. This copy contains all original leaves and complete pagination.
Oriental ownership notation.
193, [1] leaves. 20 cm. Good condition. Stains. Majority of leaves clean with wide margins. Moth stains. Title page detached and slightly worn. Tears on last leaf. Detached and damaged binding.
Among the first books printed in Kolkata.
