Talmud Bavli. Replete with numerous commentaries.

Estimate: $4,000–$6,000
Hammer price: $4,000

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author

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN)

printer

Widow and Brothers Romm

Place

Vilna

Publication

1880-86

Description

Complete in 20 volumes. Each volume with individual title within architectural border printed in red and black. From the library of the late Rabbi Dr. Leo (Yehudah) Breslauer (Washington Heights, NY) with his neat, learned marginal annotations throughout all volumes. Title-page of Tractate Eiruvin with censorship notice (Warsaw, 1916).

summary

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

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