Auction 22 - Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters

Sefer Ha’Agudah – Krakow, 1571

Opening: $500
Sold for: $688
Including buyer's premium
Sefer Ha’Agudah, Halachic rulings on order of tractates of the Shas, Rabbi Alexander Zuslin HaCohen. Krakow, [1571]. Printing press of Yitzhcak son of Aharon of Prostitz. First edition.
First letters at beginning of each tractate of fine wooden etchings; decorated frame added at beginning of each order.
4, 244 leaves [originally: 4, 250 leaves; missing: six index leaves], leaves 85-108 erroneously bound between leaves 221-222. 28 cm. Fair condition. Stains, moth marks, coarse tears on upper margins. Index leaves detached.
Early printed books – Resh and Shin Years
Early printed books – Resh and Shin Years