Bidspirit auction | GERONDI, NISSIM BEN REUVEN.  (Ra’N).

GERONDI, NISSIM BEN REUVEN.  (Ra’N). Shailoth U’Teshuvoth [responsa]. Second edition. Title within 4-part ornamental border. Title with signature in Hebrew and German of Moshe Guideman (1835-1918), Rabbi of Vienna. ff. 79 (of 80), lacking f. 79 otherwise a good copy. Occasional marginalia. Later boards. 4to. Vinograd, Const. 197. Constantinople, Moshe Parnas the Physician, 1548.     This edition combined the responsa of the first Rome edition. along with those cited in Teshuvoth Ha-Rivash, Constantinople 1546-7. Reflecting the social-history of the period, these responsa especially focus upon the economic difficulties of the Jewish Community of Barcelona during the second half of the 14th-century.