Talmud Bavli

Estimate: $10,000–$15,000
Hammer price: $5,000

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. Touch foxed in places, otherwise remarkably clean

references

Rabbinovicz, Talmud pp.157-80

summary

MAGNIFICENT WIDE-MARGINED COPY PRINTED ON PAPIER ROYALE, OF THE FAMED VILNA SHAS. The blueprint of modern printings of the Talmud. The most important publication of the illustrious Romm printers at Vilna. The Vilna Shas was edited by Samuel Shraga Feiginsohn and contains over a hundred commentaries and addenda

Ex-library. Modern boards.Tall folio

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