Eleven-volume set of thick tomes comprising the vast majority of Sha”s Talmud Bavli, with many additions. Most were printed in Frankfurt am Main, Johannes Kelner Press, [1720-1722]. Tractate Ketubot was printed in Amsterdam at Shmuel Marcus and Raphael di Palashaush Partners Press. 1716.
Ten volumes in leather-covered wooden bindings, with dense imprints of precise geometric designs, creating an especially eye-catching appearance.
All the volumes together bear more than two thousand handwritten glosses from the early-mid 1800s, with comments and commentaries, textual revisions and various references. The vast majority appears to have been written by Rabbi Shmuel Wallerstein, who signed on the title page of many of the volumes. Some of the glosses note their sources in the glosses themselves, “my brother and teacher, Rabbi Yuda.” One of the glosses mentions Rabbi Ya’akov Bing in his lifetime, meaning pre-1841, when he passed away. Another gloss mentions the sefer Aruch LaNer by Rabbi Ya’akov Ettlinger. Also mentioned: Rabbi Shlomo Zalman showed me …” (Kiddushin 22b); “… this was asked by Rabbi Netanel Gavriel …” (Pesachim 28b) – this may be Rabbi Netanel Gavriel Weissbrodt (d. 1869), a rabbi in Allersheim, Germany.
The title pages and protective leaves of the sefarim bear many owners’ notations, including: “Moshe Ullmann”; “I, the small one, Mendel Erlingen attest that this gemara belongs to [my grandfather] along with the rest of the Sha”s, here in W.S., Tuesday, 27 Nissan 1786 …”; “I, the small one, Yosef Tzvi bar Eliezer shlit”a attest that this gemara belongs to …” “Belongs to the officer, the honored Rabbi Shimon Cassel of Amsterdam”; “Belongs to the officer, R’ Itzak Ginz”; “Protection for all who sign in it, the small one, R’ Eliezer son of R’ Yitzchak Ginz shlit”a” “Belongs to the general, the officer … and major activist, the honorable Rabbi Avraham Mannheim, here in Mannheim Sunday, 18 Shevat, 1737. I, the small one, Yitzchak, known as Isaac, son of the above officer”; “This Sha”s is a gift from my brother, the honorable Yuda …” “I bought this Sha”s from my own funds.”
[11] volumes, most of Sha”s with the exception of Tractates Zevachim, Menachot and Bechorot. Ten of them are in identical bindings, all (including the eleventh) are from one source, from the early-mid 1800s. Lacking several leaves from various places. Average height: approximately 32 cm.
Overall moderate-very fine condition. One volume is dismantled. Blemishes in the bindings, wear, tears, detached leaves, usage marks. Sold as is.