Teshuvoth Harav [responsa]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $700

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

ISAAC B”R SHESHETH PERFET (RYBa”SH)

printer

Eliezer Soncino

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1545-46

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within ornate woodcut border

references

Vinograd, Constantinople 193; Yaari, Constantinople 145; Adams I-179

summary

Spanish Halachic authority whose responsa exercised considerable influence and were indeed one of the pillars upon which the Shulchan Aruch rested (see EJ, IX 32-33). This work was originally sold in single gatherings and was in fact the last book printed by Eliezer Soncino in Turkey

ff.282 (of 303), unpaginated, apparantly lacking all preliminaries (contents and erratum), some dampsoiling along lower corners not affecting text, final leaf worn with loss of few letters, marginalia, old calf-backed boards, worn, folio. Sold not subject to return

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