Bidspirit auction | (ALEPPO). Vital, Chaim.  Sha’arei Kedushah

(ALEPPO). Vital, Chaim.  Sha’arei Kedushah [Kabbalah]. * Bound with  (as originally issued): Sepher Eilim Letrufah [letters of moral instruction by the Ramba'n and the Vilna Gaon ]. ff. (4), 48, 8. Modern calf. 12mo. Yaari, Aleppo 1 and 2. Aleppo, Elijah Hai b. Abraham Sasson, 1866. The first two Hebrew books printed in this ancient Jewish community of Northern Syria. Sasson was sent by his father to Italy to learn the art of printing. The rabbinic type he uses here is in fact very similar to that used by the Livornese Hebrew presses.