Talmud Bavli.

Estimate: $4,000–$6,000
Hammer price: $3,500

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

Complete in 23 volumes. Replete with numerous commentaries. Each volume with individual title within architectural border printed in red and black.

references

Rabbinovicz, Talmud pp. 157-80.

summary

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.

Stained in places. Contemporary mottled calf, some wear, covers loose. Tall folio.

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