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ELIEZER BEN NATHAN. - Even Ha’Ezer - Sepher RABa”N [responsa, Halachic novellae and discourses]. FIRST EDITION. Title within magnificent historiated woodcut border incorporating printer’s device (Yaari, Printer’s Marks, no. 37). Signature of Dr. Michael Sachs on title-page. ff. 154. Browned, fore-edges stained. Bound in Valmadonna-custom blind-tooled crushed morocco, outer edges gilt. Folio. Vinograd, Prague 186. Prague: Moses ben Bezalel Katz 1610 This work contributes much to our knowledge of the state of scholarship and way of life of the Jews of France, Bulgaria and especially Germany in the 12th century. A native of Mainz, the author (c. 1090-1170) was an important and well known figure of his age.===See M. J. Heller, The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book, Vol. I, pp. 256-7.