Bidspirit auction | PERACHIAH, AARON BEN CHAIM ABRAHAM

PERACHIAH, AARON BEN CHAIM ABRAHAM HAKOHEN. Perach Mateh Aharon [responsa]. First Edition. Two parts in one volume. Two elaborately historiated title-pages. Spanish dedication pages. ff. (3), 249; (5), 168. Lightly stained, dampwrinkled, final leaf remargined. Modern calf-backed marbled boards. Folio. Vinograd, Amsterdam 760. Amsterdam, Moses Mendes Coutinho, 1703. An important halachic decisor among his native Salonikan rabbis, the responsa of Aaron Perachyah (1627-97) reflect the social conditions of 17th-century Turkish Jewry - and of Salonika in particular. See EJ, Vol. XIII, col. 271.