Auction 79
THE VALMADONNA TRUST LIBRARY: FURTHER SELECTIONS FROM THE HISTORIC COLLECTION. * HEBREW PRINTING IN AMERICA. * GRAPHIC & CEREMONIAL ART
Nov 15, 2018
USA
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LOT 125:
(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN).
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Sold for: $17,000
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(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN).
Twenty Basle Tractates. With commentaries: Rashi, Tosafoth, Piskei Tosafoth, R. Asher, & Maimonides on Mishnah.
* Masechta Avoth. ff. 12. Vinograd, Basle 116. * Masechta Gittin. ff. 122. Vinograd, Basle 124. * Masechta Yevamoth. ff. 156. Vinograd, Basle 126. * Masechta Shevu’oth. ff. 68. Last page with signature of Shlomo Zalman ben Yehuda Leib Katz of Hanau. Vinograd, Basle 134. * Masechta Ta’anith. ff. 31, (6). Vinograd, Basle 135. * Masechta Bechoroth. ff. 70. Vinograd, Basle 144. * Masechta Zevachim. ff. 122. Vinograd, Basle 146. * Masechta Chagigah. ff. 28. Vinograd, Basle 147. * Masechta Kerithoth. ff. 28. Vinograd, Basle 149. * Masechta Menachoth. ff. 112. Vinograd, Basle 150. * Masechtoth Me’ilah, Kinim, Midoth, Tamid. ff. 38. Vinograd, Basle 151. * Masechta Nidah. ff. 90. Vinograd, Basle 154. * Masechta Erechin. ff. 36. Vinograd, Basle 157. * Masechta Temurah. ff. 12. Vinograd, Basle 159. * Masechta Sotah. ff. 56. Vinograd, Basle 130. Bound With: Masechta Nazir. ff. 77. Vinograd, Basle 153. And: Masechta Nedarim. ff. 120. Vinograd, Basle 152. A mixed set. Bound in fifteen volumes. Three volumes with marginalia.
Volumes occasionally stained, browned, few marginal repairs. Each volume finely (differently) bound in Valmadonna-custom full calf (two vols. calf-backed marbled boards). Folio. (17).
Basle: Ambrosius Froben 1578-80
Following the wanton destruction in Italy of vast numbers of Hebrew texts - especially those of the Talmud - the Basle humanist-printer Ambrosius Froben (grandson of Johannes Froben) was moved to issue a new edition of the Talmud to compensate for the losses experienced by the learned Jews of Italy. Due to Church-related censorship matters, not all Tractates were issued and so the set remained incomplete.===See R. N. N. Rabinowitz, Ma’amar al Hadpassath HaTalmud pp. 74-79; and M. J. Heller, Printing the Talmud (1992) pp. 241-65.===<< * ACCOMPANIED BY:>> Mishnah. Seder Kodshim. ff. 47. [Vinograd, Basle 120]. Basle, 1578. << * AND:>> Mishnah. Seder Moed. ff. 53. With stamp of Moses Gaster. [Vinograd, Basle 137]. Basle, 1579.
