Lot 355
HaEmet Ha'Ivria - Chicago, 1877 - The First Hebrew Book Printed in Chicago
HaEmet Ha'Ivria (Israel's truth), "Stratagems, comments and explanations for understanding aggadot of Chazal", by R. Yehiel Judah Lewinson of Vilna. Chicago, 1877.
16 pages. 19.5 cm. Good condition. Few stains. Bookplate. Old, loose and partially detached binding, with damages.
The first Hebrew book printed in Chicago. See: Leah Mishkin, "Defuse Shikago Be-'ivrit Ube-Yidish" (Chicago Imprints in Hebrew and Yiddish), 1952, p. 79.
Goldman 689.
