Auction 61 - Rare and Important Items
Ohev Yisrael (Apta) - First Edition - Zhitomir, 1863 - Fine Copy with Additional Title Page and Wide Margins
Opening: $2,500
Sold for: $3,250
Including buyer's premium
Sefer Ohev Yisrael, Chassidic homilies on the Torah, by Rebbe Avraham Yehoshua Heshel of Apta (Opatow). Zhitomir: R. Chananya Lipa and R. Yehoshua Heshel Shapira, 1863. First edition.
This copy contains a half-title page in addition to the standard title page. This additional title page is not found in most copies and is not recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book.
[4], 3-117 leaves. Including half-title page which is bound after the standard title page. 26 cm. Overall good condition. High-quality paper. Wide margins. Stains. Repaired tears to the margins of the title page and the leaf of approbations, without textual damage. Worming and repaired tears to the final two pages. It seems that several leaves have been replaced with leaves from a different copy. The margins of several leaves have been extended with paper in order to match the rest of the leaves. New elaborate leather binding.
Stefansky Chassidut, no. 19.
This copy contains a half-title page in addition to the standard title page. This additional title page is not found in most copies and is not recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book.
[4], 3-117 leaves. Including half-title page which is bound after the standard title page. 26 cm. Overall good condition. High-quality paper. Wide margins. Stains. Repaired tears to the margins of the title page and the leaf of approbations, without textual damage. Worming and repaired tears to the final two pages. It seems that several leaves have been replaced with leaves from a different copy. The margins of several leaves have been extended with paper in order to match the rest of the leaves. New elaborate leather binding.
Stefansky Chassidut, no. 19.