Masechta Bava Bathra. With commentaries.

AUCTION 70 | Thursday, September 22nd, 2016 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autographed Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 183

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN).

Masechta Bava Bathra. With commentaries.

<<First Bomberg edition.>> Marginalia throughout. ff. 197 (of 217). Lacking title page and ff. 10-16, 31-3, 40-1, 105 and 112. Variously soiled and stained, many leaves heavily frayed and worn with loss. Old boards, worn, gutter split. Sm. folio. Vinograd, Venice 36; Haberman, Bomberg 40. Sold not subject to return.

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1521

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

The rarest of Bomberg’s tractates, as well as textually, the lengthiest of all the Talmudic volumes.