Complete in 21 volumes

Estimate: $4,000–$6,000
Hammer price: $9,000

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN)

printer

Widow and Brothers Romm

Place

Vilna

Publication

1880-86

Description

Replete with numerous commentaries. Each volume with individual title within architectural border printed in red and black. A remarkably clean set

references

Rabbinovicz, Talmud pp.157-80

summary

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

The volume of Tractate Chulin lacks Alfasi and Tosephta. These have beeen supplied in a separate volume from the Vilna 1912, edition. Modern boards. Tall folio

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