RARE! A mid-19th century edition tractate Shabbat of the Babylonian Talmud, with commentary, glosses and annotation by numerous traditional authors. The book includes a pen-written list of the previous owner`s children, born in the years 1880-1893, and a list of his son`s children in a different handwriting, born in 1914 and 1917. The previous owner also added in pen the censor`s omission`s from the tractate, mostly of parts related to Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. 225x155mm, 157+142+32 double pages. Brown cloth hardcover with embossed black frame. Cover worn and bumped. Cover edges bumped. Cover detached. Spine torn and peeling. Sticker traces on rear cover. Sticker traces on endpapers. Sticker on whitepage. Page 4 detached. Pages 5-97 detached from the volume, but not from each other. Pages yellowing. Despite the damage to its cover, this handsome, annotated and highly-personal edition of Tractate Shabbath is in good condition for reading.