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Babylonian Talmud, Sulzbach edition [1755-1763]. Printed by Meshulam Zalman ben Aharon [Frankel]. 14 volumes. A complete set, with the exception of Tractate Shekalim of the Yerushalmi Talmud. • Volume of Tractate Nidah (Sulzbach 1767) is a replacement from the second edition printed in Sulzbach (1766-1770). • Double copies of the following tractates: Volumes Shabbat-Eruvin and Bava Batra-Avoda Zara. Part of the words on the title pages of the first tractate of every volume are in red ink [with the exception of Tractate Nidah]. In many tractates are ownership inscriptions [from the 1810s] of "Two brothers R' Itzik and…Pfeifer [Chaim Yisrael] Schiff". Belongs to "Moshe Schiff", and to "…R' Leib Schiff". Most of the volumes have long inscriptions and signatures of "Moshe [ben Chaim Yisrael] Hechheimer" who was "the great-grandson of the Chaver R' Leib Schiff". Among the inscriptions are detailed lists at the beginning of each tractate, documenting the date he began and concluded each tractate. Additional signatures and ownership inscriptions of "Aharon Ber ben R' Binyamin of Heidingsfeld", "Leib Treyosh…"etc. At the beginning of the Shabbat-Eruvin tractate is a long interesting ownership inscription about the fate of these Talmud volumes during the 1848 "Spring of Nations" revolutions, containing interesting details of the history of German families written by R' Moshe Hechheimer: "For a memorial, I Moshe ben R' Chaim Yisrael was living in the village of Unterschiff with ten other families, also a cantor and a shochet, and [in the village] was a synagogue and a mikveh. The time came that the masses revolted against the kingdom…March 1848…mobs came to Erlin… and want to annihilate and massacre all the Jews in Eschiff and plunder all their possessions, and they broke the barrels of wine…and spilled them out like water and whatever they did not plunder they broke and threw about. This Talmud with all the Shas with other books, I have found…in the street, G-d has saved us with the entire congregation from their hands. My family Hechheimer have come to live here in Mergentheim, Moshe with my brother Shimon with my Uncle Itzik and his father-in-law Aharon Dreifuss, the Oppenheimer family traveled from Mannheim… and two elder needy men lived alone in Schiff, called themselves David Haas and Avraham Reich…Moshe Hechheimer ben R’ Chaim Yisrael Pfeifer…”. Further on, he writes his genealogy, four generations . 14 volumes. Volume 1: Brachot Zera’im. Volumes 2-3: Shabbat-Eruvin [two copies]. Vol 4: Pesachim-Betzah-Chagiga-Moed Katan. Volume 5: Rosh Hashana-Yoma-Succah-Ta’anit-Megillah. Volume 6: Yevamot-Ketuvot-Kiddushin. Volume 7: Gittin-Nedarim-Nazir-Sotah. Volume 8: Bava Kama-Bava Metzia. Volume 9-10: Bava Batra-Avoda Zara [two copies] (Tractate Avoda Zara was printed without the title page and without the name of the tractate at the top of the pages, because of the censor). Volume 11: Sanhedrin-Makot-Shevuot-Horayot-Eduyot-Avot and the small tractates. Volume 12: Zevachim-Menachot-Bechorot. Volume 13: Chulin-Arachin-Temura-Kritot-Me’ila-Kinim-Tamid-Midot. Volume 14: Nidah-Taharot. All the tractates are complete, with the exception of Bava Kama which is missing the title page and leaves 2-3 (begins with Leaf 4). 34 cm. Varied condition among the volumes (good-fair). Contemporary ancient bindings (leather-covered wood), with metal clasps or clasp remnants, some whole and some damaged. This edition of the Talmud was the focus of a sharp polemic with the Props printers from Amsterdam who claimed that they had received exclusive rights to print the Talmud in the approbations that they had received upon printing their Talmud and that this edition is an encroachment of these rights. This matter led to severe prohibitions of the Va’ad Arba Artzot to read these tractates and instructions to have them burned.