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AZULAI, CHAIM YOSEPH DAVID > Birkei Yoseph [commentary on Shulchan Aruch and Tur Orach Chaim]. First Edition. Three parts bound in one. From the library of Dayan Nachum Trebietsch. I: ff. 220. II: ff. 121, 113. Stained in places. Modern calf. Folio. Vinograd, Livorno 128. Livorno: Vincenzo Falorini 1774-76 One of the Chida's most important halachic works, published in many editions of Shulchan Aruch today. He unearthed citations from manuscripts encountered in his travels which had until then been entirely unknown. R. Nachum Trebitsch (1779-1842) was the Landesrabbiner of Moravia, based from its main city, Nikolsburg. A traditionalist rabbi in a tumultuous time, he fought a lengthy legal and ideological battle against the liberal rabbi Abraham Neuda.