Twelve volumes.

Estimate: $1,500–$2,500
Hammer price: $1,000

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

author

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN).

printer

Johann Kelner

Place

Frankfurt a/Main

Publication

1720-21

Description

Edited by R. Yehudah Aryeh Leib, son of Gaon R. Joseph Samuel of Frankfurt. Letters of title-pages richly historiated.

references

Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 370-390, 396-412.

summary

According to Raphael Nathan Nata Rabinowitz “this edition, with its many additions and careful editing was the finest and most valuable Talmud edition since the original publication of the Talmud. It serves as the prototype for all future editions to this very day.” (Maamar al Hadfasath HaTalmud, pp. 109-11). See also, Selig Schachnowitz, Fire in the Sky (1984).

Ex-library. Occasional worming and staining, couple of title-pages lacking. Recent boards (mixed). Sm. folio. Sold not subject to return.

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