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Rare Treasure! Fine Complete Set in Ancient Wooden and Leather Bindings! Talmud Bavli Printed by Emanuel Benvenisti - Amsterdam, 1644-1648 - Complete set of the Talmud Bavli, ”with Rashi's commentary and Tosfot and Piskei Tosfot and Rabbeinu Asher and the Rambam's commentary on the Mishnayot...with several virtues. The first is that its editing is based on Talmud books that were edited by Gedolei Hador...”.  A rare and important edition of the Bavli Talmud that was printed by Rabbi Emanuel Benvenisti in Amsterdam, 1644-1648. The printing of this Shas began on Sivan 18, 1644 and according to the colophon was completed in 1648. As far as we know, it was an edition of 3000 copies; however, today, there are almost no complete sets of this important edition. At the end of Mishnayot Taharot, on the last page, ”the editor's apology”, the Gaon Rabbi Avraham ben Rabbi Yehoshua Av Beit Din of the Asheknazic community of Amsterdam at the time who recalls that ”due to the war” he escaped from Worms to Amsterdam. About this edition he writes that this edition is based on the editions printed in Venice, Lublin and Krakow and also on the Rashal and therefore it can be relied on.  See more: R.N.N. Rabinovich, Mamar al Hadpasat HaTalmud, Jerusalem 1952, pp. 93-95.  A rare treasure! A rare and special opportunity to purchase a complete set containing all the title pages of thsi edition. All the volumes are in ancient, matching leather-covered wooden bindings with traces of buckles ; some are restored and some with new leather spines. Conditions vary. Stains, some moth perforations and varied blemishes, most of them minor. Goodo overall conditiom  Ownership signatures and varied notations.   Description of the volumes: [Volume I]: Berachot - 1644. 92 leaves; Seder Zeraim - 1646. 86 leaves.  [Volume II]: Shabbat - 1645. 186, 189-196 leaves; Eruvin - 1646. 128, 133-135 leaves. Tears and taping affecting the text of the last leaf.  [Volume III]: Pesachim - 1645. 139 leaves; Chagigah - 1645. 27, [2] leaves; Beitzah - 1645. 52 leaves; Moed Katan - 1645. 48 leaves; Shekalim - 1645. 11 leaves.  [Volume IV]: Rosh Hashanah - 1644. 42 leaves; Yoma - 1645. 96 leaves; Sukkah - 1646. 70 leaves; Ta'anit - 1645. 40 leaves; Megillah - 1645. 40 leaves.  [Volume V]: Yevamot - 1647. 148 leaves; Ketubot - 1647. 156 leaves; Kiddushin - 1647. 96, 98-99 leaves.  [Volume VI]: Gittin - 1647. 118 leaves; Nedarim - 1647. 119 leaves; Sotah - 1647. 52 leaves. Nazir - 1647. 66, 69-72 leaves.  [Volume VII]: Bava Kama - 1645. 148 leaves; Bava Metzi'ah - 1646. 120, 125-164 leaves.  [Volume VIII]: Bava Batra - 1645. 222 leaves.  [Volume IX]: Sanhedrin - 1645. 131 leaves.  [Volume X]: Makot - 1645. 26 [i.e. 28] leaves; includes also Avot Drabbi Natan, Masechet Sofrim, Avel Rabbati known as Masechet Semachot, Masachtot Kalah. Derech Eretz Rabba and Zuta, Perek Hashalom, Avot with the Rambam's commentary. 31 leaves; Shvu'ot - 1645. 62 leaves; Horayot - 1647. 16 leaves; Mishanyot Eduyot with the Rambam and Ravad - 1647. [17]-32 leaves (mispagination); Avodah Zarah - 1646. 96 leaves.  [Volume XI]: Zevachim - 1647. 152 leaves; Chulin - 1647. 148, 129-132, 143-146, 157-180 leaves.  [Volume XII]: Menachot - 1647. 152 leaves; Bechorot - 1647. 68 leaves; Arachin - 1647. 34 leaves. Me'ilah , Kinin, Tamid and Midot - 1647. [35]-72 leaves; Kritut - 1647. [73]-100 leaves. Temurah - 1647. [101]-134 leaves. [Volume  XIII]: Mishnayot Seder Taharot - 1647. 163 leaves;  Nidah - 1647. 88 leaves.