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SHITAH MEKUBETZES. BAVA METZIA. FIRST EDITION. AMSTERDAM 1721. UNIDENTIFIED RABBINICAL SIGNATURES EXTREMELY RARE! - CLASSICS. SHITAH MEKUBETZES. FIRST PUBLISHED VOLUME. BAVA METZIA. FIRST EDITION. AMSTERDAM 1721. UNIDENTIFIED RABBINICAL SIGNATURES EXTREMELY RARE! Classic sefer of collected novella of the Rishonim on Maseches Bava Metzia, complied by R. Betzalel Ashkenazi. This was the first part of the classic Shita Mekubetzes to be published. Warmly received, for hundreds of years the Shitah Mekubetzes has remained one of the most widely studied seforim. R. Betzalel Ashkenazi (c. 1520-1592), was one of the most well-known early Achronim and compiler of the Shitah Mekubetzes. He had many distinguished talmidim, notably R. Yitzchak Luria, the AR”I HaKadosh and R. Shlomo Adani, (author of the Meleches Shlomo commentary on the Mishnah). On the title page the publishers write that “they only printed 500 copies of this sefer”, hence a first edition of this sefer is particularly rare! Unidentified rabbinical inscriptions, including an inscription reading “Tzvi the son of The Gaon of Volozhin”. Stefansky Hebrew classics 62. Yosef ben Akiva Ber press. 221 pages. 32 cm. Overall fine condition. Some wear and isolated tears, at times slightly affecting text. Modern binding.