HaLevanon Newspaper – Eight Bound Volumes of Issues, Second to Sixteenth Years – Paris and Mainz, 1864-1880

HaLevanon Newspaper – Eight Bound Volumes of Issues, Second to Sixteenth Years – Paris and Mainz, 1864-1880
HaLevanon newspaper, published by Yechiel Brill – bound volumes of issues from the second through sixteenth years of publication. Paris and Mainz, December 1864 to June 1880.
Seven bound volumes of the newspaper HaLevanon – issues from the second through sixteenth years of publication; some printed in Paris (small format) and others in Mainz (large format). Some issues include the scholarly Torah-based supplement Kvod HaLevanon (the supplement appeared at times under its own separate title, and other times it was published as part of the main newspaper). Enclosed: an additional volume containing issues of the Kvod HaLevanon supplement alone – tenth year: first and third issues; eleventh year: first and second issues.
A list of issues is available upon request. 
HaLevanon, under the editorship of Yechiel Brill, was the first Hebrew newspaper to be published in Eretz Israel. It was founded in Jerusalem in 1863, by Brill, Michel HaKohen and Yoel Moshe Salomon, and was considered to be the newspaper of the Perushim (non-Chassidic) sector of the Ashkenazi community in the city. Shortly after its establishment, a competing paper, Chavatzelet, was founded in Jerusalem under the stewardship of editor Yisrael Frumkin and publisher Yisrael Bak; it served as a mouthpiece for Jerusalem's Chassidic and Sephardi communities. The competition between the two newspapers was fierce, so much so that the editors informed on one another to the authorities, prompting the Turks to shut down both papers, just one year after their establishment. Brill restarted publication of HaLevanon in Paris; it lasted there from late 1864 to 1870, when the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War forced the presses to close. Subsequently the paper moved to Mainz and London. Brill remained editor-in-chief throughout the migrations.
The Torah-based supplement Kvod HaLevanon was appended to the newspaper from its very first issue. It featured articles by rabbis, prominent Torah scholars and Jewish researchers, and over the years hosted major polemic debates, such as the one regarding the renewal of ritual sacrifice.
Eight volumes (one with issues of Kvod HaLevanon only). Multiple paginations. Size varies (approx. 19-30 cm). Overall good-fair condition. Dry and brittle paper in some volumes. Stains, including dark stains. Open tears. Wear. Old bindings.