Masechta Zevachim [sacrifices]. With commentary by Rashi, Tosafoth and Piskei Tosafoth <<FIRST BOMBERG EDITION>>

AUCTION 64 | Thursday, March 19th, 2015 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects, Maps and Graphic Art

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Lot 179

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN).

Masechta Zevachim [sacrifices]. With commentary by Rashi, Tosafoth and Piskei Tosafoth <<FIRST BOMBERG EDITION>>

. Opening letters within white-on-black decorative woodcut vignettes. Scattered marginalia in various square and cursive hands. Good margins. ff. 121 (mispaginated, though entirely complete). Previous owners’ inscriptions and signatures on title (recto and verso) in Ashkenazic hands in Hebrew and Yiddish (dated 1701-1738), some staining, tiny wormhole on a few leaves toward end, slight tear on two leaves not affecting text. Modern calf. Folio. Vinograd, Venice 56; Habermann, Bomberg 55; Rabbinovicz, Talmud pp. 35-43.

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1522

Est: $18,000 - $22,000

PRICE REALIZED $23,000

Despite few faults, overall a clean, attractive copy. A previous owner (signed on the verso of the title-page) is R. Tzvi Hirsch b. Zechariah Mendel the Dayan of Glogau (dated 1738).