Auction 40
Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Sep 3, 2014
(Your local time)
Israel
8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
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LOT 125:
Tractate Avodah Zarah and Tractate Bava Batra – Vienna, 1809 – Hundreds of Glosses
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Sold for: $360
Start price:
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200
Auction house commission:
23%
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Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Avodah Zarah and Tractate Bava Batra. Vienna, 1809. Anton Schmid printing press. First edition with glosses of the Vilna Ga’on.
Hundreds of handwritten glosses by one of the Torah scholars of Ashkenaz [c. 1870-1880]. Erudite comments, index notations and linguistic remarks (in which words in German appear in Hebrew letters).
[2], 2-86; 2-207 leaves. 41.5 cm. Good condition, spotting and wear. Slight moth damage. Tear with missing section on last leaf. Original leather binding, worn and damaged.
