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Bidding Information
Lot #    4342
Auction End Date    4/1/2003 5:28:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Mesechet Shturot
Title (Hebrew)    מסכת שטרות
Author    [Parody] [Abraham A. Rakowski]
City    Warsaw
Publication Date    1894
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    47, [1] p., 8vo., 205:133 mm., browned, bound in modern cloth boards.
          
Paragraph 1    First edition.
          
Detailed
Description		    A satire, in the form of a Talmudic treatise, on brokers and merchants, describing all the subterfuges used by them in accumulating wealth.
          
Reference
Description		    Davidson, Studies in Jewish Parody p. 238, # 215
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Parody:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica