Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Talmud Bavli – Metz, 1768-1770 – Tractates Beitzah and Niddah
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Talmud Bavli, with Rif and Sefer HaTzava, Tractates Beitzah and Niddah. Metz: Moshe Mayer, 1768-1770. Two volumes.
Both tractates in small format (two Talmud pages equivalent to one in normal editions). Only some tractates were printed in this edition.
Ownership inscription.
Tractate Beitzah: 102, [1], 17,
33-39, [1]; 43, 41-46; 21 leaves. Approx. 20 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Margins of several leaves repaired with paper, affecting text of one leaf. Signature. Old binding.
33-39, [1]; 43, 41-46; 21 leaves. Approx. 20 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Margins of several leaves repaired with paper, affecting text of one leaf. Signature. Old binding.
Tractate Niddah: [3], 142, [2], 143-172; 44; 30 leaves. 20 cm. Most leaves in good condition. Stains. Marginal tears to several leaves, and marginal open tears to title page at beginning of volume, slightly affecting text of one leaf. Original leather binding.
Title page with decorative frame at beginning of Tractate Niddah, not recorded in Bibliography of the Hebrew Book.
Early Printed Books – 17th and 18th Centuries
Early Printed Books – 17th and 18th Centuries