Sefer Mitzvot Gadol – Semag, by R. Moshe of Coucy. [Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1522].
Title page lacking, replaced with title page of part II of Lechem Mishneh by R. Avraham de Boton, Venice 1604-1606, with a piece of paper pasted in the center inscribed with the book title and name of author (as well as name of owner).
Ownership inscriptions and signatures in several places, including inscription of R. Shmuel Tzvi Weiss of Munkacs (father of Rebbe Yosef Meir, the Imrei Yosef of Spinka).
Glosses by several writers. Censorship expurgations in several places.

[249] leaves. Lacking title page. Approx. 27 cm. Fair condition. Many stains, including dampstains and traces of past dampness. Wear. Worming, slightly affecting text. Tears, including open tears slightly affecting text, repaired with paper (several leaves with marginal paper repairs close to text). Stamps and handwritten inscriptions. Binding old and worn.

Kabbalistic commentary on the Torah, by R. Menachem Recanati. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1523. First edition.
R. Menachem Recanati, a posek and kabbalist – one of the first Italian kabbalists in the 13th and 14th century.
The Recanati commentary on the Torah was one of the first kabbalistic book ever printed, and it contains many quotations from the Zohar (which was first printed only in 1558).
This is the second book proofread by the famous proofreader Yaakov son of Chaim ibn Adoniyahu (the first being Tzror HaMor, printed that year).
Several glosses in Sephardic script (partially trimmed).

[154] leaves. Lacking leaf [153]. Approx. 22 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including many dark dampstains. Worming, slightly affecting text, repaired in part with paper. Marginal open tears to final two leaves, affecting text on final leaf (margins of penultimate leaf trimmed with damage to heading), repaired with paper. Stamps. Old binding, with worming and defects.

Provenance: Estate of Prof. Ephraim Elimelech Urbach.

Sefer HaShorashim, the second part of the Michlol by R. David Kimchi (the Radak). Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1529.
The last leaf contains two poems praising this edition, composed by R. Eliyahu Ashkenazi (Bachur): "…this work was printed six times… but this printing is recognized for its beauty and correctness…".
Censorship authorizations (in Italian) on penultimate leaf, including inscription in Hebrew: "the derogatory words about pagans do not refer to Christians…", followed by the signature of the censor Girolamo da Durazzano (this inscription was presumably written by an apostate censor).
Censorship expurgations in several places (in some cases, the original text was deleted and replaced in handwriting).

[2] pages, 5-570 columns, [2] pages. 28.5 cm. Good-fair condition, first leaves in fair condition. Stains. Open tears and worming, affecting text, mostly repaired with paper. Large open tears to title page and final leaf, repaired with paper. Open tears to censorship expurgations on one leaf, due to ink erosion. New leather binding, with minor defects.

Sefer Michlol, grammar of the Holy Tongue, by R. David Kimchi – the Radak, annotated by R. Eliyahu Ashkenazi [Bachur]. Venice: Daniel Bomberg for Cornelio Adelkind, 1545.
Small format. A large format edition was printed concurrently.
Signature on the title page. Many marginal glosses in Latin and Hebrew, in an early hand from the time of printing. The glosses were handwritten by the Italian apostate Immanuel Tremellius. Some of the Hebrew glosses open with the words: "So said Immanuel Tremellius".

Immanuel Tremellius (1510-1580), Jewish apostate, priest and missionary. He converted to Catholicism, Protestantism, and eventually to Calvinism. Professor of Hebrew in the universities of Strasbourg, Cambridge and Heidelberg. He wrote several works, including a missionary work in Hebrew, later printed in Madras (present day: Chennai, India) for missionizing Indian Jews.

239, 238-268, [1] leaves. 15 cm. Good condition. Stains. Wear to title page. Original parchment binding. Minor defects to binding. Bookplate.

Issur VeHeter, by R. Yonah Ashkenazi of Regensburg. Ferrara: Abraham ibn Usque, [1555]. First edition.
Title page states that the book was authored by R. Yonah (the book was occasionally misattributed to Rabbenu Yonah Gerondi). This book, which is also known as Issur VeHeter HaAroch, was authored by R. Yonah son of R. Isserl Ashkenazi, a Torah scholar of Regensburg, and dayan in the Beit Din of R. Yisrael Bruna. R. Yonah was the disciple and mechutan of R. Yisrael Isserlein, author of Terumat HaDeshen. Issur VeHeter HaAroch became one of the primary sources of Halachic rulings on Kashrut for Ashkenazi Jews.
Usque's printer's device at center of title page.
Stamp on third leaf of R. Benzion Wesel Rabbi of Brașov and Turda (1864-1938), leading rabbi in his times, head of the Orthodox Bureau of Transylvanian rabbis.
Trimmed ownership inscription on title page.

[174] leaves. 19.5 cm. Fair condition. Many stains. Worming, affecting text, repaired in part with paper. Open tears, affecting title page border and text, repaired with paper (small parts of border completed by hand). Marginal paper repairs to many leaves at beginning and end of book, and to several other leaves (possibly supplied from a different copy). New leather binding.

The present copy includes the final two leaves of errata, which are lacking in many copies.