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ATIAS, ISAAC. Tesoro de preceptos... [with:] Dinim de degollar ( Laws for Slaughter ). Venice: Giovanni Caleoni, 1627. *4, b-e4, f6, *4,*2, A-Sss4 (288 leaves); *4, **4, ***2 (10 leaves). Title within typographical border of scriptural verse in Hebrew and Spanish. 4to, 200 x 142 mm. (7 7/8 x 5 5/8 in.), rebound in modern leather, gilt-lettered on spine; title-page and final 2 leaves with fore-margins worn and reinforced with cellophane tape, gutter margin of title pasted close along new flyleaf, a few gatherings with wormtracks affecting text near inner margins, some marginal wormtracks and worming (affecting some shoulder notes), pale staining and soiling throughout, leaves R1-R2 present in duplicate. FIRST EDITION. Wolff III, 1252; Kayserling, p. 15; not in Steinschneider. Isaac Atias had studied in the Sephardic community of Amsterdam under the direction of haham Isaac Uziel, then went to Hamburg where he was appointed the first haham of the Sephardi congregation and after 1622 to Venice, where he died. This work, a comment on the 613 Commandments of Judaism was intended for the Spanish and Portuguese "New Christians" who reverted to the Jewish faith, but were largely ignorant of its orthodox practice. Its popularity is demonstrated by a second edition, printed shortly afterwards by Semuel ben Israel Soeyro, son of Menasseh ben Israel. The work contains approbations by the ecclesiastic authorities of Venice and rabbinical approbations of the Ashkenazim and Sephardim.