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(SEPHARDICA). SASPORTAS, SOLOMON. Zecher Rav - Memoria de los 613 Preceptos de la S. Ley, y siete de Sabios [mnemonic listing of the precepts]. First Spanish edition. Translated from the Hebrew by Solomon Adhan. ff. (30). Light stains. Later calf, rear cover with prior owner name in gilt. Tall 8vo. Amsterdam, Naphtali Hertz Rophé, 1727. A member of the influential Amsterdam Sasportas family, Solomon served as Rabbi of Nice in the Provençe region of France, from 1690 until his death in 1724. The family name Sasportas is of either Spanish (Seis Puertas), or more likely, Portuguese derivation (Seis Portaõs). Translator and publisher Solomon Adhan hailed from Tãfîlãlet in Saharan Morocco. He left for Gibraltar and Amsterdam in 1720 to collect funds to redeem his family and synagogue which had fallen into the hands of nomadic Arabs. See EJ, Vol. V, col. 1224.