Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Three Volumes of Torah with "Shabbat Prayers" Siddur (Sephardic) - Zhitomir, 1857/1865

Opening: $300
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
Three Torah volumes, printed in Zhitomir by the grandsons of the rabbi of Slavita.
* Chumash Bereshit and Chumash Vayikra with Onkelos, Rashi and Ba'al Haturim. Zhitomir: R. Chanina Lipa and R. Yehoshua Heschel Shapira, 1857. Each volume contains the Shabbat prayers (Sefardic). The prayer for the head of state (Mi Sheberach) mentions: "Our master the exalted Czar Alexander Nikolayevitch, and his wife the Czarina Marya Alexandrovna, and their son, heir to the throne, Nikolai Alexandrovitch".
Two volumes. 19 cm. Bereshit: 142 leaves; 16 leaves. Vayikra: 105 leaves; 16 leaves. Fair condition. Stains, tears and wear (the last pages have tears at the margins, with damage to text). Slight worming. Unbound.
* Devarim with Onkelos, Rashi and Baal Haturim. Zhitomir, 1865. The end of the volume contains the Shabbat prayers (Sefardic).
Devarim: 197 leaves; 1-10, [1] leaves. (Five leaves missing from the middle and end of the Shabbat prayers. Originally: 197 leaves; 16 leaves). Good-fair condition. Stains and slight wear. Open tears to the title page (with paper glued for reinforcement). New binding.
These volumes are not listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book.
Books printed in Slavita and Zhitomir, Russia and Poland
Books printed in Slavita and Zhitomir, Russia and Poland