Bidspirit auction | KABOLI, SOLOMON (Editor). Shailoth U’Teshuvoth

KABOLI, SOLOMON (Editor). Shailoth U’Teshuvoth HaGa’onim. FIRST EDITION. Title set within striking arabesque frame. Formerly in the Israel Mehlman collection. ff. 46. Ex-library, worming repaired with loss of a few letters. Modern boards, Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Constantinople 253. Constantinople, Eliezer Aschkenazi, 1575. Collected Gaonic responsa: The exceptionally rare first edition. The printer, Eliezer Aschkenazi, moved to Safed were he utilized the same distinctive type ornament frame for the books he produced there starting in 1577. See M.J. Heller, Early Hebrew Printing from Lublin to Safed: The Journeys of Eliezer ben Isaac Ashkenazi, in: Jewish Culture and History, 4:1.  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1462169X.2001.10511954 See also:  https://cja.huji.ac.il/gross/browser.php?%20mode=set&id=37290