Talmud Bavli

AUCTION 14 |
Tuesday, November 13th,
2001 at 1:00
Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din
Lot 329
(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN)
Talmud Bavli
Vilna: Widow and Brothers Romm 1880-86
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
MAGNIFICENT WIDE-MARGINED COPY PRINTED ON PAPIER ROYALE, OF THE FAMED VILNA SHAS.
The blueprint of modern printings of the Talmud. The most important publication of the illustrious Romm printers at Vilna. The Vilna Shas was edited by Samuel Shraga Feiginsohn and contains over a hundred commentaries and addenda
Hungarian rabbi and scholar, Immanuel Loew’s (1854-1944) fame rests on his pioneering work in the field of talmudic and rabbinic lexiconography and in the study of artifacts such as coins from talmudic times. He was a renowned preacher in the Hungarian language and succeeded his father as rabbi of Szeged, Hungary