Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
HaEmet Ha'Ivria - Chicago, 1877 - The First Hebrew Book Printed in Chicago
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
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.
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.
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