Masechta Zevachim [sacrifices]. With commentary by Rashi, Tosafoth and Piskei Tosafoth FIRST BOMBERG EDITION

Estimate: $18,000–$22,000
Hammer price: $23,000

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

author

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN).

printer

Daniel Bomberg

Place

Venice

Publication

1522

Description

. Opening letters within white-on-black decorative woodcut vignettes. Scattered marginalia in various square and cursive hands. Good margins.

references

Vinograd, Venice 56; Habermann, Bomberg 55; Rabbinovicz, Talmud pp. 35-43.

summary

Despite few faults, overall a clean, attractive copy. A previous owner (signed on the verso of the title-page) is R. Tzvi Hirsch b. Zechariah Mendel the Dayan of Glogau (dated 1738).

ff. 121 (mispaginated, though entirely complete). Previous owners’ inscriptions and signatures on title (recto and verso) in Ashkenazic hands in Hebrew and Yiddish (dated 1701-1738), some staining, tiny wormhole on a few leaves toward end, slight tear on two leaves not affecting text. Modern calf. Folio.

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