Auction 10 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Yuma Tractate – Ancient Glosses

Opening: $300
Sold for: $550
Including buyer's premium
Yuma Tractate in a small-scale volume [each normal size page is printed upon two pages, Chidusei Maharsha are printed in the page margins]. Amsterdam, [?1740]. Orphans of Shlomo Props printing press.
Lengthy erudite glosses written in ancient handwriting, two of which are signed "Kach Nireh Lee [so it appears to me] Shmuel".
On page 2 an owner signature "[Hersh?] Adler" appears.
2-189 Leaves (title page as well as an additional page are missing). 19cm. Good condition. Stains of wear and of usage. Colorful cutting of pages (part of the comments are cut off). Old and worn leather binding.
Slightly different edition than that which appears in the Bibliography Institute CD record no. 0318767. (In the colophon which appears at the end of page 189, there is an advertisement of The Orphans of Rabbi Shlomo Katz Props Press.)
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