MAARSEN, JOSEPH BEN JACOB. Tikkun Socharim ve-Tikkun Chillufim [a manual of commercial correspondence for merchants and money changers compiled from contemporary non Jewish law books].

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MAARSEN, JOSEPH BEN JACOB. Tikkun Socharim ve-Tikkun Chillufim [a manual of commercial correspondence for merchants and money changers compiled from contemporary non Jewish law books].
Amsterdam: Hirsch Scheberschin, Moses Bendien and Joseph Maarsen, 1714. 238 leaves, title within floral woodcut border, printed in Yiddish in cursive characters, with an approbation from the "Chakham Zevi" (Rabbi Zevi Hirsch Ashkenazi).
8vo, 154 x 92 mm. (6 x 4 5/8 in.), contemporary vellum, some age darkening; upper margin of 1/4 of the textblock frayed, affecting some of the pagination and the running title, staining and browning throughout.
FIRST (and only) EDITION. Vinograd Amsterdam 1039; Steinschneider 5954,7; Cowley 344; Zedner 505; Roest 759; title-page illustrated in M.H. Gans, Memorbook p. 184.

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