Talmud Bavli.

Estimate: $4,000–$6,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

summary

WIDE-MARGINED COMPLETE SET OF THE FAMED VILNA SHAS, PRINTED ON PAPIER-ROYALE. The most important publication of the illustrious Romm printers at Vilna, their Shas has become the blueprint of the modern printing 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.

Foxed and stained in places, Tractate Kiddushin lacks title-page. Contemporary uniform boards. Tall folio.

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