"Luach Israel" - Calendar for the Year 1879-1880 - St. Petersburg, 1879 - Russian and Hebrew

"Luach-Israel in Russian for the year 1879-80…with many useful additions, concerning Jews in our country and abroad. Third Year". By H.Y. [Haim Yona] ben Yitzchak Eliyahu Gurland. Printed by A. Zederbaum and Dr. A.I. Goldblum. St. Petersburg, 1879. Hebrew and Russian.
Calendar for the year 1879-1880, by Haim Yona Gurland, author and bibliographer, teacher and rabbi in Odessa. The calendar was printed in Hebrew and Russian, page facing page, and is accompanied by articles in Russian (with Hebrew titles): "number of Jews wherever they live", contents of government regulations, information about schools and teachers' seminaries in Vilnius and Zhitomir; list of periodicals and Jewish anthologies in various languages; book stores advertisement leaflets, and more. 128 pp, 19.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Creases and stains (some dark). Some scribbles in colored pencils. First two leaves (title pages) and last leaf are in fair condition - tears (with minor damage to text), some restored, with pasted paper. New binding. Ex-libris label. Ex-library copy.