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CHAYON, SAMUEL. - B’nei Shemuel [responsa and Halachiv novellae]. FIRST EDITION. Two parts bound in one volume. Wider margins. Marginal notations. ff. 113, 144. Light stains in places, damp-wrinkled, several leaves expertly laid to size. Bound in Valmadonna-custom calf-backed marbled boards, corners vellum-tipped, spine gilt-titled. Sm. folio. Vinograd, Salonika 175. Salonika: n.p. 1613 R. Shemaiah di Modena composed the introduction to this work and relates that it is entitled ”Bnei Shmuel,” as the author - (who was named after his grandfather, Samuel di Modena, the Maharshda”m), had no children of his own, hence his legacy is the present work of Torah scholarship.===The afterword recounts the author's losses due to civil unrest in Salonika in 1614. See Y. Mehlman, Genuzoth Sepharim, p. 92.===See also M. J. Heller, The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book, Vol. I, pp. 296-7.