Haskamah Chamurah

AUCTION 30 | Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 9

(ALEPPO)

Haskamah Chamurah

Single leaf broadside 8vo Yaari, Hebrew Printing in the East , pp. 36-7 (illustrated)

Aleppo: 9th Iyar, 1865

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

The Establishment of the First Printing Press in Aleppo. Hebrew printing in Aleppo began in 1866. Until then, Hebrew manuscripts were sent from Aleppo to the Hebrew presses of Europe. This document heralds the start of Hebrew printing in the city. Signed by fifty two Syrian Rabbis, it grants Abraham Sassoon a twenty year exclusive privilege to establish a press in Aleppo, and forbids all industrial competition