Perach Mateh Aharon [responsa]

AUCTION 11 | Tuesday, November 28th, 2000 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 114

PERACHYAH, AARON BEN CHAIM ABRAHAM HAKOHEN

Perach Mateh Aharon [responsa]

FIRST EDITION. Two parts in one volume. Two titles within historiated woodcut architectural borders flanked by Moses and Aaron with vignettes depicting the Ark of the Covernant and Moses bearing the Decalogue. The Tzvi Hirsch Berlin Copy ff. (3), 249; (5), 168. Clean tear on first title, lightly browned. Contemporary blind-tooled mottled-calf, rubbed, rebacked, lacking small upper portion of spine. Folio Vinograd, Amsterdam 760; Fuks, Amsterdam 576

Amsterdam: Moses Mendes Coutinho 1703

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $850

Regarded as an important halachic descisor among his native Salonika rabbis, R. Perachyah’s responsa reflect the condition of Turkish Jewry in general and of Salonika in particular, in the 17th century