Auction 17 · Lot 325

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

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: $2,250

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author

SOLOMON BEN ABRAHAM HAKOHEN

printer

D. Azubib, G. di Gara & M. Bath-Sheva

Place

Salonika & Venice

Publication

1586-1594

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title of Part II within architectural woodcut border. Parts I and III printed without a title page

references

Vinograd, Salonika 116 and132; Vol II:Vinograd, Venice 775 and Salonika 121A; Habermann, di Gara 138; not in Adams

summary

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

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

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