Masecheth Berachoth [Talmudic Tractate]

AUCTION 39 | Thursday, April 03rd, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Lot 83

(CHASSIDISM).

Masecheth Berachoth [Talmudic Tractate]

Two divisional titles (Rav Alfas and Mishnayoth Seder Zera'im). Brimming on every page with rabbinic marginalia, Aschkenazic cursive in faded sepia ink ff. (2), 2-137; 64; 58, 61-62, 61-70. (Mispaginated but complete.) Contemporary mottled calf. Folio Vinograd, Slavuta 139; Rabbinowicz, Ma'amar al Hadpasath ha-Talmud, pp. 131-2

Slavuta: Moshe Shapiro 1817-1818

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,000

The book bears the Haskamoth (endorsements) of Chassidic luminaries Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Abraham Joshua Heschel of Apta (Opatow), Israel ben Levi Isaac of Pikov, Mordecai ben Pinchas of Koretz (Korzec); as well as the Lithuanian Rabbis Chaim Hakohen of Pinsk, and Samuel of Karlin and Antopol