Auction 22
Lot 166:
From the Talmud Bavli, with mishnayot from Seder Zra’im, separate cover for the mishnayot. Cover page in red and black ink. Wonderful wood-engraved illustrations. Original wood binding covered in leather with inscriptions. Printed by Zalman the Printer. | This edition was, at the time, ruled by the Va’ad Arba Artzot, ordered to be burned following claims by the Propus printers of Amsterdam that they broke copyrights. | Front blank page and page before cover have signatures of Rabbi Yehiel ben Rav Gaon Shmuel Segel, Prague.” Who was the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Seger, son of the Noda B’Yehuda, and his inheritor as the head of the Prague beit din and head of the yeshiva. | Thick, dark, high-quality paper. Page cutting in red. Especially wide margins. Remains of clasps for closing. Binding coming apart. Number of pages disconnected. Moth holes. | [3], 2-100; [1], 2-87 pages. 42cm. Generally ok to good condition.
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