Talmud Bavli.

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 277

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN).

Talmud Bavli.

Complete in 23 volumes. Replete with numerous commentaries. Each volume with individual title within architectural border printed in red and black. Stained in places. Contemporary mottled calf, some wear, covers loose. Tall folio. Rabbinovicz, Talmud pp. 157-80.

Vilna: Widow and Brothers Romm 1880-86

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,500

<<MAGNIFICENT, WIDE-MARGINED COPY OF THE FAMED VILNA SHAS, PRINTED ON PAPIER-ROYALE.>> The most important publication of the illustrious Romm printers at Vilna, their Shas became the blueprint of modern printings of the Talmud. The Vilna 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.