Neviim Rishonim, Neviim Acharonim and Ketuvim, "Magishei Mincha", with Rashi commentary and Yiddish translation. Amsterdam, [1753-1754].
Seven volumes. Fine original leather bindings, with original marbled endpapers. Gilt decorations to boards and spine.
Originally printed with the Torah and Five Megillot, not included in this set.
Seven volumes. Vol. I (Yehoshua and Shoftim): [1], 63; [65]-139 leaves. Vol. II (Shmuel): [140]-318 leaves. Vol. III (Melachim): [319]-504 leaves. Vol. IV (Yeshayahu and Yirmiyahu): 179; [180]-316 leaves. Vol. V (Yechezkel and Trei Asar): [317]-459; [460]-590 leaves. Vol. VI (Tehillim, Mishlei and Iyov): 180; [181]-251; [252]-338 leaves. Vol. VII (Daniel, Ezra, Nechemia and Divrei HaYamim): [339]-384; [385]-440; [441]-464, 467-536 leaves. 17.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Original leather bindings, with gilt decorations to boards and spine. Marbled endpapers. Damage to bindings.

Tehillim with multifaceted (Pardes) commentary, by the kabbalist R. Immanuel Chai Ricchi, author of Mishnat Chassidim. Livorno, [1742-1743]. First edition.
In the course of the printing of this book, the author was murdered in sanctification of G-d's Name. On the title page, his name is referred to as among the living, however, at the end of the book, the author's son tells of his murder. A lamentation for him, by R. Shlomo Yosef son of R. Natan Carpi, was also added to the book‏.
R. Immanuel Chai Ricchi (1688-1743) was a leading Italian kabbalist, author of Mishnat Chassidim and other compositions. He traveled widely, reached Eretz Israel and established a yeshiva in Jerusalem (one of the students of this yeshiva was the Or HaChaim). In 1742, he visited Italian communities to raise funds for his yeshiva. At that time, he began printing this book in Livorno. On Rosh Chodesh Adar 1743, on his way from Modena to Bologna, soldiers arrested him and tried to force him to eat pork. Upon his adamant refusal, they strangled him to death with his tefillin straps and looted all the charity funds he had collected. His cousin, R. Immanuel son of R. Yitzchak Ben Tzion Ricchi, writes in his lamentation: "His blood was spilled because he did not want to defile his pure soul". R. Yaakov Londin writes about the murder of R. Immanuel Ricchi in his preface to the book Shiva Einayim (Livorno, 1745): "He was murdered in sanctification of G-d's Name on the same day that I returned on that route… He was captured by three soldiers, who spilled his blood and looted him of a great sum of money, for the sake of G-d's Holy Name. He would not defile himself with their food and put pork into his mouth…".
At the beginning of the book is a long autobiography of the author, describing his works, wanderings and experiences. In his epilogue to the book, the author's son, R. Avraham Shmuel Ricchi, provides further details about the author and describes his murder: "Upon his departure from Modena to travel through Bologna… he met wicked evildoers… with swords girded on their loins… and they looted him and attacked him…". He then describes how the Jews of Modena gave R. Immanuel a Jewish burial, after being informed of his murder: "I will not be ungrateful… to the residents of Modena… for they respected him in his death, and immediately upon hearing the bad tidings, the city notables set out… They disinterred his body from the river bank and brought him to rest in the Jewish graveyard in Cento…". At the end of his epilogue, R. Avraham Shmuel copies an unnerving notation found in R. Immanuel's personal siddur, written in his own handwriting, recording a dream in which he was informed that his is the soul of Rabbi Yehuda ben Bava, one of the ten martyrs, and that he would die in sanctification of G-d's Name: "I hereby write the dream letter by letter, word for word, as it appears in his handwriting in his siddur… This is to remember that in Jerusalem in the year 1740, I dreamt… one night, I and another person were being killed sanctifying G-d's Name, and afterward, that same year on Friday night… I was told in a dream that the soul of my son… is the soul of a Tanna… and I inquired about myself… They told me, 'And you are R. Yehuda ben Bava'…".
Interestingly, the author concludes his commentary in this work with the topic of the ten martyrs, with specific mention of R. Yehuda ben Bava.
In the center of the title page: the author's family emblem, featuring a lion holding a stalk of wheat in its mouth. A Hebrew inscription surrounds the emblem.
138, [2] leaves. 33 cm. Good condition. Stains. Defect to leaf 70, affecting several words (possibly occurred during printing). Stamps. Inscriptions. New leather binding.

Mishnayot, Zera'im-Taharot, with the R. Ovadia of Bartenura and Tosfot Yom Tov commentaries. Amsterdam: David Tartas, [1684-1687]. Six orders in three volumes.
Many signatures and ownership inscriptions: "Elkana Segal"; "R. Yusale son of Elkana Segal"; "Avraham Aberle son of R. Elkana Segal"; "Wedding gift from my father R. Aberle Segal, Yokev Levi of The Hague[?]" (author of the wedding poem Chedvat Yaakov, Amsterdam 1778, see enclosed material); "Belongs to Moshe son of R. Yissachar Tzvi"; a dedication "from Chanoch Nathansohn" to his brother, on the occasion of his Bar Mitzvah.
Three volumes. Vol. I – Zera'im: [3], 132 leaves (lacking title page and last leaf); Mo'ed: [1], 172 leaves. Vol. II – Nashim: [1], 159 leaves; Nezikin: [1], 196 leaves. Vol. III – Kodashim: 163 leaves; Taharot: [1], 223 leaves. Approx. 22 cm. Condition varies. Vol. I in fair condition, with extensive wear, tears and creases to margins of dozens of leaves at the beginning and end. Vols. II and III in overall good condition. Wear and tears to margins of first leaves in Vol. III. Stains (including dampstains), wear and tears to all volumes. Original leather-covered wooden bindings, some with metal clasp remnants. Wear and damage to bindings.

Babylonian Talmud. Shanghai, 1942-1946. Published by students of the Mir yeshiva in Shanghai.
Complete set of the Babylonian Talmud, printed in Shanghai between 1942 and 1946 by students of the Mir yeshiva who escaped to the Far East during the Holocaust.
Reduced photocopy of the Romm Vilna Talmud.
The "publishing committee" of the Mir yeshiva is referred to on the title pages in various ways: "The Ezrat Torah Library of the Mir Yeshiva", "Torah Or publishing committee", "Mir Yeshiva" and "Menadvim Publishing".
19 volumes. Approx. 26 cm. Brittle paper in a few volumes. Overall good condition. Stains. Marginal wear and tears to some leaves. Handwritten ownership inscriptions. New, uniform bindings.
Tractate Yevamot was not printed in Shanghai (the students of the Mir yeshiva studied this tractate in Kobe, Japan, before reaching Shanghai; hundreds of volumes of the tractate were sent to Japan from the United States by Rabbi Kalmanowitz). See: A. Elbaum, Defusei Shanghai UShe'erit Hapletah, HaMaayan, vol. 40, issue 3, Nissan 2000.