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(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN). - Masechta Eiruvin [on religious enclosures]. With commentaries by Rashi, Tosaphoth, etc. Text illustrations. Marginalia. ff. 136 (of 140). Opening two leaves and closing two leaves supplied in facsimile, stained in places, expert paper repairs throughout, ff. 132-3 with loss of text. Modern gilt-tooled calf. Folio. Vinograd, Pesaro 22; Mehlman 142a. Pesaro: Gershom Soncino 1511 Regarding this early Talmud edition see M.J. Heller, Earliest Printings of the Talmud, in: Printing the Talmud: From Bomberg to Schottenstein (Yeshiva University Museum, 2005), pp. 70-71 and Heller, Printing the Talmud, pp. 103, 120-121 and R.N.N. Rabbinovicz, Ma’amar al Hadpassat HaTalmud, pp. 20-31.