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Title Pages of the Be’er Mayim Chaim Chumash – First Edition – Mohyliv-Sudylkiv, 1820

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Five title pages of the volumes of the Chumash Be’er Mayim Chaim with Onkelos and Rashi, and the commentary Be’er Mayim Chaim by R. Chaim Tyrer, Rabbi of Czernowitz (Chernivtsi). Mohyliv (Mohyliv-Podilskyi)-Sudylkiv: no printer indicated, 1820. First edition.
The present lot contains title pages for the Books of Bereshit, Shemot, Vayikra, Bamidbar and Devarim. Also enclosed is the leaf containing approbations by R. Avraham Yehoshua Heshel, the Ohev Yisrael of Apta, R. Efraim Zalman Margaliot of Brody and R. Kremnitz (son of R. Yechiel Michel of Zlotchov).


[6] leaves. Approx. 20-21 cm. Varying condition of leaves, fair-good to fair-poor. Stains, including dampstains. Worming and open tears, affecting text, mostly repaired with paper filling (with handwritten text replacements to some leaves). Inscriptions and stamps.

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