Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sabbath Zhitomir 1860, excellent condition.
Talmud Yerushalmi (Jerusalem Talmud),
Seder Nezikin Zhitomer 1865, excellent condition, last four pages water damage
Seder Nashim Zhitomir 1867, excellent condition, last page detached / ripped
Seder Zera’im Zhitomir 1866, excellent condition, slight water damage
A tractate of the famous hasidic edition of the Talmud. In 1847 the Shapira printing press was established by the three brothers Hanina Lipa, Aryeh Leib, and Joshua Heschel Shapira, sons of R. Samuel Abraham Abba Shapira, the printer in Slavuta. Until 1862 this was one of the only two Hebrew presses the Russian government permitted to operate in the whole of Russia, the other being in Vilna. This press had 18 hand presses and four additional large presses. In 1851 Aryeh Leib broke away and established his own printing press in Zhitomir. In these two establishments only sacred books of every kind were printed.
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