Auction 51

Menorat HaMaor, with commentary Nefesh Yehuda, second section—printed by Shapira, Zhitomir 1852. Partially missing copy.

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Menorat HaMaor by Rabbi Yitzhak Abuhav, with the commentary Nefesh Yehuda (with Yiddish translation), second section—printed by the brothers Rabbi Chanina Lipa and Aryeh Leib and Yehoshua Heschel Shapira, grandsons of the Slavita Rav. Zhitomir 1852. Held in the National Library Rare Books section. 2-3, 1-324 leaves in the original—this copy opens on leaf 8 and ends on 309.

Various stains, worming holes and damage, tears, tape and missing bits of the first and last pages, old binding with worming holes, overall poor to fair condition though not checked page-by-page. The blank first leaf has a note in Mizrahi script with the name Yosef Chadad.