Tractate Zevachim from Talmud Bavli with all commentaries like the earlier print, with new additions.
Johann Eckhart Press, published by the partners R’ Avraham ben R’ Yosef and R’ Menachem Mendel Horowits, Chernivtsi (Czerniowce), 1843.
127, [2], 2-153 pages, 41 cm. With stamp of Rabbi "Alter Spira Rabbiner of Okna", and ownership signatures unrecognized. Original leather cover with gold decorations.
[2] title pages printed combined with red ink.
Additional ownership signature illegible: ‘ הק’ שאול לנדא פיש’ (Shaul Landau … )
The Gaon Rabbi Alter Eliyakim Shraga son of the Holy Rabbi Chaim Shimon Spira of Tłuste from great lineage of Rabbanim of Bukovina (1855-1936). Rav of Vikno (Okna), from sharp Rabbanim in Bukovina and later Rav of the charming city of Chernivtsi (Czerniowce). Was son of the son straight lineage till the Holy Rabbi Pinchas of Koritz through his grandfather Rabbi Yosef who was also the grandson of the ‘Degel Machane Ephraim’ son-in-law of the Holy Baal Shem Tov. he was also a descendant of the holy righteous Maggid of Stepan, disciple of the Holy Baal Shem Tov.
Authored many sefarim on Torah, Fefstivals, and Shut. His son was Rabbi Pinchas Spira of Czerniowce father of Rabbi Avraham Yosef Spira, famous benevolent member of the Knesset and emissary of Rabbanim for Agudat Yisrael.
Damaged leather cover, aging stains, moth holes. General condition good.