Techina Kol Bechiot booklet, "brought from Eretz Israel", by Mrs. Henna Safra. Zhitomir: Shapira brothers, 1857 (place of printing and name of printers in Russian). Yiddish.
This supplication was composed by Henna daughter of R. Yehuda, wife of R. Aryeh Leib Safra Rabbi of Brody.
14 pages. Size varies, 14.5-16.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains and wear. Tears to upper-inner margins, affecting text. Creases and damage. Without binding.
Not listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book and does not appear in the NLI catalog.
Several other supplication booklets were bound before and after this booklet, some damaged (they were presumably printed and distributed separately. Most booklets have a colophon with the place and year of printing, in Russian):
• Mikra Kodesh. (Lacking beginning. Place and year of printing were not identified).
• Techina fun Rosh Chodesh Bentshen. Vilna, 1855.
• Techina Teshuva Tefilla UTzedaka. Vilna, 1858.
• Techina Shaarei Teshuva. Vilna, 1858.
• Techina Shelosha She'arim. Vilna, 1859.
• Techina Imahot. Vilna, 1859.
• Sefer Tefilla Zaka, from the book Chayei Adam. Vilna, 1857.

Chayei Adam, laws of Orach Chaim, by R. Avraham Danzig. Zhitomir: R. Chanina Lipa and R. Yehoshua Heshel Shapira, grandsons of the rabbi of Slavita, 1858.
[4], 456 pages. 20.5 cm. Condition varies, good-fair. Stains and wear. Marginal worming and damage to first leaves. Extensive worming to approx. 15 final leaves, affecting text (most repaired). Minor tears and damage. Stamps. Old, damaged binding, lacking back board.
Not listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, and does not appear in the NLI catalog. To the best of our knowledge, has never before been offered at auction.

Tikkun Leil Shavuot and Hoshana Rabba, following the order of the Shelah book. Zhitomir: R. Chanina Lipa and R. Yehoshua Heshel Shapira, grandsons of the rabbi of Slavita, 1863.
Two title pages.
336 pages. 21 cm. Light-colored, high-quality paper. Good condition. Stains. Minor damage. Original leather binding, with gilt tooling on front board. Damage to binding.

Babylonian Talmud, with the commentaries. Zhitomir: Shapira Brothers, [1858-1864]. Eighteen volumes.
Eighteen volumes: Berachot; Shabbat; Eiruvin; Pesachim, Chagiga; Rosh Hashana, Yoma, Sukkah; Yevamot, Sotah; Gittin, Nazir; Kiddushin, Nedarim; Bava Kama; Bava Batra (two copies); Sanhedrin; Makkot, Horayot; Shevuot, Avoda Zara; Zevachim, Menachot; Chullin; Bechorot, Arachin, Temura, Keritot, Me'ila, Tamid; Niddah.
Lacking Tractates: Beitzah, Taanit, Megillah, Moed Katan, Ketubot, Bava Metzia.
18 volumes. Approx. 36.5-37.5 cm. Overall fair-poor condition. A few volumes in good-fair condition. Stains and wear. Dampstains and traces of past dampness. Extensive worming. Tears and creases to some title pages and other leaves. Most volumes with original leather bindings, very damaged, some detached. Several volumes with different bindings.
The volumes were not thoroughly examined, and are being sold as is.

Sefer HaTakanot VeHaskamot, public regulations and halachic customs established by Jerusalem rabbis throughout the generations, by R. Chaim Avraham Gagin. Jerusalem: R. Yisrael Bak, 1842.
Two title pages. The first title page is decorated with a woodcut. The second title page is on leaf [5], after R. Gagin's preface.
The second Hebrew book printed in Jerusalem. Printed in the printing press established by R. Yisrael Bak of Berditchev and Safed, disciple of R. Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev and R. Yisrael of Ruzhin.
This book is comprised of two parts: the first contains R. Gagin's preface and a long responsum (dated 1824) by R. Shlomo Moshe Suzin regarding the authority of the Beit Din to issue public regulations. The second part includes a compilation of the regulations and customs of Eretz Israel following the order of the four sections of Shulchan Aruch. At the end of the book, approbations dated 1841 and 1842, by rabbis and community officials, according R. Yisrael Bak the exclusive rights to printing in Eretz Israel. The approbations describe how R. Yisrael established a new printing press in Jerusalem after his press in Safed was destroyed by vandals. [There are some copies without the final leaf - approbation from 1842. See Bibliography of the Hebrew Book listing 123175, and Sh. HaLevy, HaSefarim HaIvriim Shenipesu BiYerushalayim, no. 3].
The bibliographer A. Tauber, in his article "History of the Printing Press in Eretz Israel" (Mechkarim Bibliographim, pp. 10-11; Kovetz Yerushalayim - Lechakirat Eretz Israel, Jerusalem 1928, pp. 179-192), posits that the main purpose of this book was to reinforce several controversial public regulations (especially regulations regarding estate and ownership titles). In order to be able to print this book, R. Gagin and the Sephardic community officials encouraged the establishment of R. Yisrael Bak's printing press, intending that this would be the first book to be published there. R. Gagin, who was persecuted by his opponents, initiated the printing of this book in order to answer their contentions. In order that this should not be obvious, R. Gagin instructed R. Yaakov Capiloto and R. Avraham Ashkenazi, two Jerusalemite scholars, to research the customs and ordinances of Eretz Israel, arrange them in the order of the four sections of Shulchan Aruch, and combine them with the responses to those who questioned the abovementioned ordinances.
This book was presumably printed in stages, according to the progress of the abovementioned editors. According to Tauber, the first part of Sefer HaTakanot was already printed in 1841 (before the printing of Avodat HaKodesh, which is recognized as the first Hebrew book printed in Jerusalem). The printing was only concluded after R. Capiloto and R. Ashkenazi completed compiling and editing the second part of the book.
[16], 13-72 leaves. Lacking [4] final leaves (replaced in photocopy). 15 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Worming. Tears repaired with paper. New binding.