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Meturgeman, Aramaic-Hebrew dictionary and explanation of the Aramaic words in the Targums of the Torah, by R. Eliyahu HaLevi Ashkenazi (R. Eliyahu Bachur). Isny (Germany): Paulus Fagius, 1541. First edition.
Ownership inscription on title page. Several glosses. Inscriptions on endpaper.
Censorship expurgations in several places (including p. 4a). Signature of censor on penultimate leaf.
[4], 164, [2] leaves. 32.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear and creases. Marginal tears and open tears to some leaves. Marginal worming to some leaves, slightly affecting text. Loose and detached leaves and gatherings (including title page and colophon page). Old binding, worn and damaged, detached, without spine.
Tanchuma, "called Yelamdenu, Midrash on the Five Books of the Torah". Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1545. Second edition.
Ownership inscriptions on title page: "I, Avraham Pescarolo, purchased this book from R. Yehudah Bachi, Turin". Deleted inscriptions on second leaf of Avraham Pescarolo, dated 1737. (R. Yehudah Bachi named here is perhaps the father of R. Shimshon Bachi the second).
Censorship expurgations on several leaves (including many lines towards the end of Parashat Tzav with a comparison between the Jewish people and the gentiles and apostates).
Signature of censor on last leaf, in Latin and Hebrew (Hebrew portion of signature trimmed).
7, 9-97 leaves. Missing leaf 8, with handwritten replacement. 26 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains and dark stains. Worming, repaired with paper. Marginal open tears to title page and several other leaves, affecting text. Title page mounted on thick paper. Close trimming, slightly affecting text on several leaves. Old binding, without spine, worn and damaged.
Mizrachi, supercommentary on Rashi on the Torah by R. Eliyahu Mizrachi. Venice: Daniel Bomberg by Cornelio Adelkind, 1545. Second edition.
On p. 280b is a printed map of Eretz Israel. Colophon on last leaf (trimmed and partially lacking). Blurred and trimmed inscriptions on first and second leaf. Inscriptions on last leaf (on blank page).
Censorship expurgations in several places. Signature of the censor Domenico Gerosolimitano (dated 1598) on last leaf.
2-7, 9-320 leaves. Missing title page and leaf 8. 29.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including large dampstains. Wear and creases. Small marginal tears to several leaves. On last three leaves, large open tears, affecting text, repaired with paper. Worming in a few places. Loose and detached leaves and gatherings. Early leather binding, worn and damaged, missing spine (both parts of binding loose and mostly detached).
Two grammatical books printed in the 1540s in one volume:
• Sefer Michlol, Hebrew grammar, by R. David Kimchi – the Radak, with annotations by R. Eliyahu Ashkenazi [Bachur]. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, [1545].
Comprised of three parts ("she'arim") – Grammar of Verbs, Grammar of Nouns and Grammar of Particles.
Large format. A small-format edition was printed concurrently.
• Sefer HaShorashim, Hebrew roots, by R. David Kimchi (the Radak) with annotations by R. Eliyahu Bachur. Venice: Giustiniani, 1546-1548.
The title page is dated Cheshvan 1546, but the printing was only completed in Adar 1548, as stated in R. Eliyahu Bachur's poem at the end of the book.
Title page also contains Latin title: "Thesaurus Linguae Sanctae".
On front endpaper – inscriptions in Italian script on lending of the book.
In Sefer HaShorashim – tens of glosses in Italian script. The glosses include original content, analysis and critiques of the author's statements, as well as comments and expansions. In several places, the writer refers to his novellae on the Torah, Talmud and Zohar. Possibly, the writer is R. Avraham Segari, Av Beit Din of Casale, posek and kabbalist and a foremost Italian rabbi of the 18th century.
Censorship expurgations to one leaf.
Signatures of the censors Giovanni Domenico Carretto (dated 1610) and Domenico Gerosolimitano (dated 1598) on both sides of last leaf.
Michlol: 69 leaves. Shorashim: [2] pages, 5-548 columns, [1] page. 31 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Worming and small tears to margins of several leaves. Verso of first book's title page repaired with paper. Handwritten inscriptions of several words inside title frame of second book. Early leather binding, worn and damaged, with open tears to spine.
Six Hebrew grammar books bound together. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1546.
1-4. Dikdukim, four books on Hebrew grammar printed together (each with a divisional title page): Mahalach Shevilei HaDaat by R. Moshe Kimchi, with the commentary of R. Eliyahu Bachur; Petach Devarai by an anonymous Sephardic author; Tzachut BeDikduk by R. Avraham ibn Ezra; Moznei Leshon HaKodesh by R. Avraham ibn Ezra.
5. Sefer HaHarkavah by R. Eliyahu Bachur. Including Pirkei Eliyahu by the same author, with a divisional title page (starting from leaf 45).
6. Marpe Lashon by R. Moshe ibn Habib.
Inscriptions and glosses to several leaves. Deleted ownership inscriptions on first title page.
Dikdukim: [4], 8, 10-51, 53-236 leaves. Missing leaf 9 (with handwritten replacement). Sefer HaHarkavah: 83, [1] leaves. Marpe Lashon: [24] leaves. Missing leaf [17] (with handwritten replacement) and last leaf. Approx. 15 cm. Fair-good condition. Many stains, including dampstains. Light wear. Tears, including open tear on first leaf, affecting text. Many handwritten inscriptions on first leaf. Without binding.
Kol Bo, laws and customs. Venice: Marco Antonio Giustiniani, 1547.
The book was printed anonymously, and the identity of its author was subject to dispute. Today it is considered an early edition of the work Orchot Chaim by R. Aharon HaKohen.
Inscription in Italian script on title page and on endpaper. On endpaper, signatures of Prof. Eliyahu Shmuel Hartom, author of the Cassuto commentary on the Bible.
4, 158 leaves. 28.5 cm. Fair condition, some leaves in middle of book in good-fair condition. Many stains, including large dampstains and dark stains, tears and some open tears, including tears to title page (affecting title frame), partially repaired with paper. Margins of several leaves repaired with paper. Early leather binding. Wear and damage to binding.
Divrei HaYamim LeMalchei Tzarfat UMalchei Beit Ottoman HaTogar (history of the kings of France and the kings of the House of Ottoman the Turk), by R. Yosef HaKohen HaRofe. [Sabbioneta: Tuviah Foa by Cornelio Adelkind, 1553]. First edition, rare.
First edition of the work by R. Yosef HaKohen HaRofe (1496-1575) dealing with the history of Christian and Muslim kings and medieval European peoples, with reference to events affecting Jewish history.
Gregorian dates printed next to the paragraphs in tandem with events described in the text. The book mostly describes events in the 15th and early 16th centuries.
Various inscriptions on title page in Hebrew and Italian. Inscriptions in Italian on back endpaper (events and dates from the book).
[40], 41-327 leaves. Missing last leaf. 14.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including many dampstains. Worming in one place on about 40 of the last leaves, affecting text. Small marginal tears to several leaves. Title page and first gathering loose and partially detached. Early leather binding, worn and damaged.
Talmud Bavli, Tractate Eruvin, with commentaries of Rashi, Tosafot, Piskei Tosafot and Rabbeinu Asher (Rosh), with commentary on Mishnah by Rambam. Basel: Ambrosius Frobenius, [1580].
Volume of the Talmud edition printed by the Christian scholar Frobenius from 1578-1581.
Copy of R. Shmuel Hillman, successor of R. Yehonatan Eibeshitz as Rabbi of Metz. On p. 81a, inscription attesting that the book belongs to him: "Belongs to… R. Shmuel Hillman, Rabbi and head of the yeshiva of Mannheim" – R. Shmuel Hillman (d. 1765), leading rabbi of his generation, studied in Prague under R. Avraham Broda together with R. Yehonatan Eibeshitz. He served as Rabbi of Krems an der Donau, Mannheim and Metz. The Noda BiYehudah was his mechutan.
Additional inscriptions in several places. Ownership inscriptions on endpaper and p. 16b of second sequence.
106, 17, 10-11 leaves. Missing last leaf (leaf 12 of last sequence). Leaf 17 of second sequence bound out of place, at end of volume (due to a tear, the leaf is unmarked). 34 cm. Somewhat dark paper. Fair condition. Many stains, including dampstains and dark stains. Wear. Tears and open tears, affecting text, mostly repaired with paper. Worming. Close trimming, bordering glosses printed in margins. Early binding with leather spine. Wear and damage to binding.
• Tur Orach Chaim with Beit Yosef. Venice: Zuan (Giovanni) di Gara, [1589]. First edition with numbering of halachot and "novel halachot" in Beit Yosef.
Inscriptions and signatures, and several glosses on leaves of book. Signature on title page and early Ashkenazic signature on p. 40b.
24, 460 leaves. 32 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear and creases. Tears, including open tears on title page and other leaves, affecting title frame and text, partially repaired with paper (with handwritten text replacements in several places). Worming, affecting text. Loose leaves and gatherings. Early binding, damaged, with heavy wear and many tears.
• Tur Yoreh Deah with Beit Yosef. Venice: [Giovanni di Gara], 1574. Third edition of Beit Yosef, printed during the lifetime of the author R. Yosef Karo.
Especially fine edition. Afterword on the final page by proofreader R. Yachya son of Avraham ibn Chamu of Fez, in which he relates that the philanthropist R. Chaim ibn Saruk arranged the printing of this edition, and expresses his hope that R. Chaim ibn Saruk would succeed in exerting his influence on the Venetian authorities to rescind the prohibition against printing the Talmud in Italy, in effect since the burning of the Talmud in 1554.
Ownership inscriptions.
400, [28] leaves. 34 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear and creases. Tears, including open tears, on title page and other leaves, affecting title frame and text, repaired with paper. Worming, affecting text. Detached leaves and gatherings. Early leather binding, damaged and torn, with front detached.
• Tur Even HaEzer with Beit Yosef. Venice: Zuan (Giovanni) di Gara, 1565. Printed during the lifetime of the author.
Ownership inscription on title page.
On verso of last leaf, signatures of two censors.
Inscription on front binding: "Sh. Sh. S. Y[?]".
258 leaves. 35.5 cm. Overall good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Worming on title page and other leaves, affecting text. Small marginal tears to several leaves. Two leaves detached. Early leather binding, worn and damaged, with open tears to spine. Fabric laces for closing (partially torn).
• Tur Choshen Mishpat with Beit Yosef. Venice: Zuan (Giovanni) Bragadin assisted by Asher Parenzo by Zuan (Giovanni) di Gara, [1594].
On last leaf, printer's device depicting three crowns, on top of another printer's device depicting Venus holding an arrow next to a seven-headed dragon, with a Biblical verse.
Early Ashkenazic signature on title page: "Yoel son of R. Shmuel". This was the name of R. Yoel Sirkes, Rabbi of Cracow, author of Bayit Chadash (the Bach). We were unable to verify whether this is indeed his signature.
Other signatures on title page, p. 221a and leaf preceding index. Signatures and inscriptions on front endpaper.
Several glosses in Ashkenazic script.
421, [1] blank leaf, 27, [1] leaf. 33 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains and traces of former dampness on last leaves. Wear. Light worming. One leaf detached. Early leather binding, worn, with open tears to spine.
Provenance: Collection of Prof. Eliyahu Shmuel Hartom.
Bedek HaBayit, corrections and additions to Beit Yosef by R. Yosef Karo. Venice: Zanetto Zanetti, 1606. Second edition.
Bedek HaBayit was printed decades after the passing of R. Yosef Karo, based on notes he wrote for himself after the printing of the first edition of his Beit Yosef. These notes were introduced into later printings of Beit Yosef.
The first edition of the book was printed about a year before this edition, in Thessaloniki, 1605.
On recto and verso of last leaf, signatures of the censors Giovanni Domenico Carretto (dated 1628) and Clemente Renatto.
[2], 68 leaves. Misfoliation. 19.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Light wear. Minute worming to first leaves. Close trimming, slightly affecting header of one leaf. Old cardboard binding.
Yad HaMelech, commentary on the Book of Esther, including original text, by R. Shmuel Valerio. Venice: Zuan (Giovanni) di Gara, 1586. Only edition.
Inscription in Italian script on title page. Deleted inscription on title page. Additional inscription (Hebrew alphabet in reverse order) on following leaf.
On last leaf, signature of the censor Giovanni Domenico Carretto, 1608.
104 leaves. Approx. 20 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including large dampstains to some leaves. Early binding, worn and damaged, without spine.
Tzemach David, lexicon of Hebrew and Aramaic roots, with explanations in Latin and Italian, by R. David Min HaTapuchim (de Pomis), "physician and philosopher from Spoleto". Venice: Ioannes (Giovanni) de Gara, 1587. Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin and Italian.
The lexicon is in alphabetical order, in two columns, with Hebrew words on the right and foreign words (Aramaic, Rabbinic Hebrew, etc.) on the left.
At the beginning of the book is a dedication to Pope Sixtus V (Latin) and introductions in Latin, Italian and Hebrew.
Inscriptions and censor's signature on back endpaper. Signature of the censor Giovanni Domenico Carretto (dated 1610) on verso of last leaf.
5, [1], 5-62, 238 leaves. 29 cm. Overall fair condition. Stains, including dampstains, wear and creases. Tears, including open tears to title page and other leaves. Worming. Title page and other leaves and gatherings detached. Only contains front leather binding, damaged and detached.