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Menachem Azariah da Fano. Sefer Teshuvot (responsa).
Venice, Daniel Zanetti, [c.1600], 18.5 x 12.6 cm.
First edition; 144 leaves (last leaf blank), gathered in 36 quires of 4 leaves, title within architectural border, soiled, inner margin strengthened, skillful paper repair of upper left corner not affecting image, occasional staining, light browning, signed by the censor, without censorship of text, final blank with owner's inscription, cloth backed 19th-Century paper boards, excellent copy.
Cowley 424; Zedner 530; Roest 794; titlepage illustrated in Amram, the makers of Hebrew books in Italy, p. 345.
The copy of Avraham Merzbacher with his signature on front free endpaper. On A. Merzbacher (1812-1885), Rabbi, banker, numismatist and bibliophile, see: Enc. Judaica, vol. 11 clmn 1395.
Venice, Daniel Zanetti, [c.1600], 18.5 x 12.6 cm.
First edition; 144 leaves (last leaf blank), gathered in 36 quires of 4 leaves, title within architectural border, soiled, inner margin strengthened, skillful paper repair of upper left corner not affecting image, occasional staining, light browning, signed by the censor, without censorship of text, final blank with owner's inscription, cloth backed 19th-Century paper boards, excellent copy.
Cowley 424; Zedner 530; Roest 794; titlepage illustrated in Amram, the makers of Hebrew books in Italy, p. 345.
The copy of Avraham Merzbacher with his signature on front free endpaper. On A. Merzbacher (1812-1885), Rabbi, banker, numismatist and bibliophile, see: Enc. Judaica, vol. 11 clmn 1395.