Haskamah Chamurah

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(ALEPPO)

Place

Aleppo

Publication

9th Iyar, 1865

Description

Single leaf broadside

references

Yaari, Hebrew Printing in the East , pp. 36-7 (illustrated)

summary

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

8vo

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