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The personal copy of Rabbi Dov Aryeh Ritter, Av Beit Din of Rotterdam: Shitah Mekubetzet, Bava Metzia and Bava Batra. Lemberg, 1877. Sefer Shitah Mekubetzet, [2] parts in one volume: – On tractate Bava Metzia by Rabbi Betzalel Ashkenazi. – On tractate Bava Batra by Rabbi Yosef Ibn Migash, with additional novellae from the Rishonim. Printed by Uri Wolf Salat and Yaakov Meshulam Nik, Lemberg, 1877. Distinguished copy. 150; [1], 3–78, [1] leaves. With the handwritten signature of the great Gaon Rabbi Dov Aryeh Ritter. The great Gaon Rabbi Dov Aryeh Ritter (1855–1936), Av Beit Din of Rotterdam, one of the leading Halachic decisors in Holland and among the important Rabbis of Europe. With his immense erudition, he was the one who uncovered the famous forgery of the Jerusalem Talmud on Kodashim, and he corresponded about it with the great Rabbis and decisors of Poland and Galicia. Half-leather binding detached, small tears and repairs to several of the opening leaves, stains. Fair–good condition.