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Bidding Information
Lot #    24566
Auction End Date    9/22/2009 10:19:54 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Talmud Bavli, Tractate Zevahim, Menahot, Bekhorot
Title (Hebrew)    תלמוד בבלי, מסכת זבחים, מנחות, בכורות
City    Kopys (Kapust)
Publisher    Israel b. Isaac Jaffe; Judah Jaffe
Publication Date    1825-26
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Three tractates in one volume. 126; 111, [4]; 80 ff., 386:240 mm., wide margins, old hands, blue paper, usual light age and damp staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary full leather over boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Printed by Israel Jaffe, a disciple of R. Menahem Mendel of Vitebsk and R. Shneur Zalman of Lyady. Jaffe is known for his printing the first editions of many hasidic works of the Besht and the Ba'al ha-Tanya. Not all tractate were printed as the Slavuta edition appeared at the same time and offered a nicer copy with more commentaries, eventually resulting in the bankruptcy of the Jaffe printing house. The latter two tractates were printed by the his son Judah.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Talmud
  
Characteristic
Blue Paper:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica