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

AUCTION 17 | Tuesday, November 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic and Ceremonial Art From Various Owners

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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. 244. ff. 201-8 misbound, first and last few leaves neatly remargined. Recent vellum-backed boards. Vol II: ff. 181,28,(1). Light dampstains in places, gently damp-wrinkled, starting. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, red tie-clasps. Vol. III: ff. 124 (of 126). Lacking ff. 35-6. Scattered marginal worming neatly repaired. Recent vellum-backed boards. Sm. folio Vinograd, Salonika 116 and132; Vol II:Vinograd, Venice 775 and Salonika 121A; Habermann, di Gara 138; not in Adams

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

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,250

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 addenda to Volume II was the first work printed by the House of Bath-Sheva. See I. Mehlman, Gnuzot Sepharim (1973) pp.73-5