Masecheth Yevamoth [Tractate "Levirate Marriages"]

Estimate: $30,000–$40,000
Hammer price: $28,000

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

author

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN).

printer

Daniel Bomberg

Place

Venice

Publication

1522

Description

FIRST BOMBERG EDITION. Letters of opening words within white-on-black decorative vignettes. On f.130v signature of former owner: "Nathan ben HeChaver Moshe Ganz Bacharach." Few Hebrew marginalia

references

Vinograd, Venice 57 and Habermann, Bomberg 50 (both with erroneous pagination)

ff. 130; 20 (i.e. 18). Minimally stained, few minor paper repairs. Modern blind-tooled moroccco. Folio

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