Sefer Maleh Ratzon - Frankfurt-am-Main, 1710 - Inscription upon Receiving the Volume from the Author, the Rabbi of ...

Sefer Maleh Ratzon - Frankfurt-am-Main, 1710 - Inscription upon Receiving the Volume from the Author, the Rabbi of Worms - Signatures
Sefer Maleh Ratzon, "To answer all the difficulties in the Talmud" by R. Avraham Naftali Hirsch Halevi Spitz Segal, rabbi of Worms and the vicinity. Frankfurt-am-Main, [1710]. First edition. With the approbations of R. Naftali Katz of Frankfurt, author of "Semichat Chachamim", and R. Gavriel Eskeles, rabbi of Nikolsburg.
On the front endpaper is an inscription by the nephew of the author: "This volume was given to me as a gift by my esteemed uncle, the author, revered rabbi of Worms and the vicinity. These are my words as the grandson of his sister, Yitzchak Zekel, son of R. David Spitz Segal" [the inscription was evidently written between the publication on the volume in 1710 and the author's death in 1712, since the inscription refers to the author as among the living].
Further old signatures on the title page: "The small Yehuda Leib of Berlin", "The small Gershon Boskovitz".
Title page decorated with vegetal decorations with the words "The Almighty G-d is our crown". Further illustrations and decorations throughout the volume. Page 5a (Tractate Brachot 21) contains an illustration of the 400 chairs added to the Beit Medrash upon the appointment of R. Elazar ben Azariah as Nasi.
[2], 4, 97, [2]; 114; 7, 9-10; 1-13, [1] leaf. 31 cm. Fair condition. Stains and wear. Small tears. Original leather covered wooden binding; damaged and detached.
Most copies of this book contain only the approbation of R. Naftali Katz, although the author mentions having received approbations from other rabbis who requested that their words not be printed "as they are unnecessary". In this copy, however, an extra paper was attached to the bottom half of the page of approbations. The page contains the approbation of R. Gershon Eskeles together with the original text of the page in smaller font so as to make room for the new approbation.