Masechta Me’ilah, Kinim, Midoth, Tamid, etc. With commentaries by Rashi, Tosafoth, etc

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Lot 243

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN)

Masechta Me’ilah, Kinim, Midoth, Tamid, etc. With commentaries by Rashi, Tosafoth, etc

FIRST BOMBERG EDITION. Opening letters within white on black decorative woodcut vignettes ff. 47. Dampstained in places, title laid down. Modern vellum-backed boards. Folio Vinograd, Venice 127; Habermann, Bomberg 118/119; not in Adams; Rabinowitz pp.36

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1523

Est: $8,000 - $10,000

PRICE REALIZED $10,000

The first edition of Bomberg’s Talmud sold out quickly, necessitating reissues of various tractates in 1527-30, 1538-9 and 1548. According to R.N. Rabinowitz, this volume heralded the completion of Bomberg’s firet edition of the Talmud.