Talmud Bavli. Replete with numerous commentaries.

Auction 85 | Thursday, November 07th, 2019 at 1:00pm

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 195

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN)

Talmud Bavli. Replete with numerous commentaries.

Complete in 20 volumes. Each volume with individual title within architectural border printed in red and black. From the library of the late Rabbi Dr. Leo (Yehudah) Breslauer (Washington Heights, NY) with his neat, <<learned marginal annotations throughout all volumes.>> Title-page of Tractate Eiruvin with censorship notice (Warsaw, 1916).

Vilna: Widow and Brothers Romm 1880-86

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,000

<<WIDE-MARGINED, COMPLETE SET OF THE FAMED VILNA SHAS, PRINTED ON PAPIER-ROYALE.>> The most important publication of the illustrious Romm Family of printers, their Vilna Shas has become the blueprint of the modern printing of the Talmud. This extended edition of the Shas was edited by Samuel Shraga Feigensohn and contains over one hundred commentaries and addenda. See Yeshiva University Museum Catalogue, Printing the Talmud (2005) number 57.