תיאור הספר

RARE FIRST AND SECOND VOLUMES BOUND TOGETHER. Contains a total of 38 issues from the years 1877 and 1878. Includes a 16-page addendum in Hebrew, portrait of August von Tréfort frontispiece. Copy of a hand written note embedded between last text page and rear whitepage. Text in Gothic lettering (Fraktur). 164x222mm. [XXVIII+264] + [344+16] pages. Quarter-cloth black Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Text block edges marbled. Cover rubbed and slightly stained. Rear cover edges partly peeling. Cover corners bumped and peeling/worn. Spine slightly stained. Library sticker on spine. Spine edges bumped. Spine upper edge tattered and peeling. Text block edges, endpapers and whitepages browning. Small stamp and ink inscription on front endpaper. As there is no title page, the periodical`s name was written in ink on first page by previous owner. Two stamps on first page. Few pages slightly age stained. Several pages worn near edges and/or have a small stamp - no damage to text. Page 161/162 of first volume have had a large piece torn of on bottom corner, and repaired with blank paper - text partly missing. Text on several pages is cut on bottom edge - as published (the affected parts are mostly footnotes and not the text itself). Some pages bottom corner slightly bumped/creased. Pages yellowing/browning. [SUMMARY]: These extremely rare issues of an influential Hungarian Jewish periodical is still in good reading condition.