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SHLOMO IBN ADRET (RaShB’A).  Teshuvoth Shailoth LeRabeinu Moshe bar Nachman [responsa]. Edited by Chiya Meir ben David. ff. (95). Small tears to title bearing previous owners’ marks. * Bound With: Baruch of Worms. Sepher HaTerumah [halachic compendium]. On title, Hebrew signature of former owners including ”Shmuel ben Shemayah de Medina” (see below). ff. (140), text complete, without final blank leaf. Sigs. 15.3 and 15.4 misbound in reverse order. Very slight marginal tear on title. Censorial deletions. Two works in one volume.  BOTH FIRST EDITIONS. Lightly dampwrinkled with miniscule worm-holes, otherwise, both works in fine condition. Bound in 17th-century blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, rubbed. Lg. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 14 and 91; Stefansky, Sifrei Yesod 265 and 227. Venice, Daniel Bomberg, 1519 and 1523. Exceptional Copy of Two Important Rabbinic Classics Bound in One Volume. Sepher HaTerumah with signature of R. Shemayah de Medina (d. 1650). A native of Salonika, he achieved fame as a Rabbi of Venice. His father Moshe de Medina (d.1608) was the son of the Halachic respondent R. Shmuel de Medina (1506-1589), author Shailoth UTeshuvoth MaHaRaShDaM, one of the great Rabbis of Salonika. R. Shemayah published his grandfather's collected sermons entitled Ben Shmuel (Mantua, 1622).