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Lot 159

Printed Leaf – Shaar HaYirah from Reshit Chochmah – Jerusalem, Printed by Yisrael Bak – Rare Leaf, From a Discontinued Printing – 1860s

Printed leaf, beginning of Shaar HaYirah of Reshit Chochmah by R. Eliyahu de Vidas. [Jerusalem: Yisrael Bak, ca. 1860s].
Single leaf with the beginning of Shaar HaYirah of Reshit Chochmah, apparently part of an attempted printing that was discontinued.
The font and typography indicate that this leaf was printed by Yisrael Bak, evidently ca. 1860s.


[1] leaf. 21.5 cm. Good condition. Bottom margins repaired with paper. New leather binding.


Not recorded by Sh. Halevy or in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book (the NLI catalog contains a photocopy of the present copy).


Previously of the collection of Dr. Israel Mehlman.