Talmud Yerushalmi

AUCTION 47 | Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at 1:00

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

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Lot 270

(TALMUD, JERUSALEM).

Talmud Yerushalmi

Second Edition, First Edition with a Commentary. Four parts in one volume. Three divisional titles. First word in each Order within magnificent surround; letters of first word in each Tractate within inidividual historiated vignettes. Printed in two columns with commentary occupying third column in rabbinic characters ff. 65 (Zera'im); 66 (Nashim); 51 (Nezikin and Tractate Niddah); 83 (Mo'ed). Orders of Talmud bound out of sequence. Previous owners’ marks, variously stained, some marginal wear, extreme upper portion of ttitle removed not affecting text, ff. 39-40 abraded with some loss. Mottled calf, skillfully rebound. Folio Vinograd, Cracow 289

Cracow: (Isaac Prostitz) (1609)

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,400

“This second edition of the Jerusalem Talmud became the standard for subsequent printings of the Yerushalmi.” See Yeshiva University Museum Catalogue, Printing the Talmud (2005), number 34