45. Hilchot Rav Alfas – Pressburg, 1836-1839 – Complete, Elegant Set in Eight Volumes – Portrait of the Rif
Hilchot Rav Alfas. Pressburg: Anton Schmidt, [1836-1839]. Complete, elegant set in eight volumes.
Elegant set. Large wide-margined volumes; thick paper. In vol. I, frontispiece portrait (imaginary) of R. Yitzchak Alfasi – the Rif.
Handwritten inscription on the endpaper of vol. I. Several handwritten glosses.
Vol. I: [6], 3-61, [1], 62-86; [2], 103 leaves. Vol. II: [3], 2-89, 90-132, [1]; 13 leaves. Lacking [1] leaf after leaf 89 (possibly a divisional title page). Vol. III: [4], 88, 83-172 leaves. Lacking [1] final leaf at end of volume. Vol. IV: [3], 2-164 leaves. Vol. V: [2], 123; [2], 47 leaves. Vol. VI: [3], 2-60, 60-155 leaves. Vol. VII: [3], 176, [6], 177-223 leaves. Vol. VIII: [2], 132, [2] leaves. Approx. 45 cm. Some leaves browned (particularly title pages). Gilt edges. Most leaves in good condition, some title pages in fair condition. Stains. Open tears to some title pages (large tear in vol. IV), affecting border and text (repaired in part with paper). Early, elegant bindings, with new leather spines and corners, and new endpapers (volumes rebound). Stamps and handwritten inscriptions. Defects to bindings.
13 final leaves of vol. II, with commentary of the Mordechai on Minor Tractates, by R. Mordechai Banet, not listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book.
Enclosed with the set are several additional copies of some of the title pages: one copy of title page of part III, two copies of title page of part IV, one copy of title page of part V, two copies of title page of part VIII (some leaves with open tears and worming).

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