Masechta Bava Bathra. With commentaries.

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $1,500

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

author

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN).

printer

Daniel Bomberg

Place

Venice

Publication

1521

Description

First Bomberg edition. Marginalia throughout.

references

Vinograd, Venice 36; Haberman, Bomberg 40. Sold not subject to return.

summary

The rarest of Bomberg’s tractates, as well as textually, the lengthiest of all the Talmudic volumes.

ff. 197 (of 217). Lacking title page and ff. 10-16, 31-3, 40-1, 105 and 112. Variously soiled and stained, many leaves heavily frayed and worn with loss. Old boards, worn, gutter split. Sm. folio.

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