(MaHaRaSHa”CH OF SALONIKA). Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]. Three parts in three volumes

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SOLOMON BEN ABRAHAM HAKOHEN

(MaHaRaSHa”CH OF SALONIKA). Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]. Three parts in three volumes

FIRST EDITION. Title of Part II within architectural woodcut border. Parts I and III printed without a title page Vol I: ff. 243 (of 244) lacking last leaf. Small loss of text on ff.1-2 supplied in facsimile, wormed affecting text in a few places, few margins expertly repaired. Vol II: ff. 181, 29. Lightly brownd and stained throughout, marginalia. Vol III: ff. 126.Lightly browned, stained in places. Uniform modern tan morocco, spine in compartments, gilt. Sm. folio Vinograd, Salonika 116&132; Vol II:Vinograd, Venice 775& Salonika 121A; Habermann, di Gara 138; not in Adams

Salonika & Venice: D. Azubib, G. di Gara & M. Bath-Sheva 1586-1594

Est: $4,000 - $5,000

Having printed the first volume of this work of responsa with the short-lived Printing House of David Azubib in his home town of Salonika, the author sent the second volume to be printed in Venice. When Matathias Bath-Sheva and Sons established a printing operation in Salonika in 1592, R. Solomon, as he states in his introduction to the addenda of Volume II, saw no reason to continue the Venetian commission and thus they, along with the final volume of the work, were printed in Salonika. The 29 leaf adenda to Volume II was the first work printed by the House of Bath-Sheva. See I. Mehlman, Gnuzot Sepharim (1973) pp.73-5