Arbaa VeEsrim, with commentary in Italian, all four parts – Five Books of the Torah, Neviim Rishonim, Neviim Acharonim and Ketuvim. Venice: Bragadin, [1739-1741]. All four parts in two volumes, additional volume with extra copy of Ketuvim.
Elaborate edition of the Bible, with a brief Italian commentary, prepared and published by Isaac Foa (printer in Bragadin's press). The present copy is a complete set including all four parts in two volumes – Torah and Neviim Rishonim in one volume, and Neviim Acharonim and Ketuvim in the second volume. Each part opens with an engraved frontispiece depicting figures from the Bible, produced by Francesco Griselini, designer of an illustrated Esther scroll which was published several years later in Venice. Each frontispiece consists of an elaborate engraving within a decorative engraved border (printed in two stages – first the borders and then the engravings in center). The central engravings depict the Binding of Isaac (part I); the figures of Joshua, Samuel and David (part II); Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel (part III); King David praying reciting Psalms (part IV). In some copies, the central engravings were printed in sepia; in the present copy they were printed in black.
In part I, a general title page, followed by an additional, more detailed title page. Divisional title pages for Neviim Rishonim and Ketuvim (title page of Neviim Acharonim lacking in the present copy).
Handwritten leaves enclosed in the book, with various prayers and more, in Italian script.
Three volumes. Vol. I (Torah and Neviim Rishonim): 9, 14-20, 17-21, [3]; 148; 108 leaves. Vol. II (Neviim Acharonim and Ketuvim): [1], 130-228, 209-223; [2], 225-348 leaves. Lacking title page of Neviim Acharonim. Vol. III (extra copy of Ketuvim): [1], 225-347 leaves. Lacking final leaf, and without engraved frontispiece. 24.5-26 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear to some leaves. Tears to general title page and several other leaves, including minor open tears, slightly affecting text. Margins of some title pages and engravings reinforced with paper. Several detached and loose leaves. Old leather bindings, worn and damaged (open tears to spines of first two volumes).

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Tehillim. Amsterdam: Yochanan Levi Rofe and son Binyamin, 1817.
With Kavanat HaMeshorer, Shimushei Tehillim (directives for Tehillim usage) and various prayers.
On the verso of the title page, printed notice (in Portuguese) that as of May 20, 1817, unsigned copies will be considered illegal; hand signed by A. Pardo Cardozo (in Latin characters).
131, [1] leaves. 12.5 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Tears to several leaves, including tiny open tears to title page, slightly affecting text, repaired in part with paper. New leather binding.

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45. Hilchot Rav Alfas – Pressburg, 1836-1839 – Complete, Elegant Set in Eight Volumes – Portrait of the Rif
Hilchot Rav Alfas. Pressburg: Anton Schmidt, [1836-1839]. Complete, elegant set in eight volumes.
Elegant set. Large wide-margined volumes; thick paper. In vol. I, frontispiece portrait (imaginary) of R. Yitzchak Alfasi – the Rif.
Handwritten inscription on the endpaper of vol. I. Several handwritten glosses.
Vol. I: [6], 3-61, [1], 62-86; [2], 103 leaves. Vol. II: [3], 2-89, 90-132, [1]; 13 leaves. Lacking [1] leaf after leaf 89 (possibly a divisional title page). Vol. III: [4], 88, 83-172 leaves. Lacking [1] final leaf at end of volume. Vol. IV: [3], 2-164 leaves. Vol. V: [2], 123; [2], 47 leaves. Vol. VI: [3], 2-60, 60-155 leaves. Vol. VII: [3], 176, [6], 177-223 leaves. Vol. VIII: [2], 132, [2] leaves. Approx. 45 cm. Some leaves browned (particularly title pages). Gilt edges. Most leaves in good condition, some title pages in fair condition. Stains. Open tears to some title pages (large tear in vol. IV), affecting border and text (repaired in part with paper). Early, elegant bindings, with new leather spines and corners, and new endpapers (volumes rebound). Stamps and handwritten inscriptions. Defects to bindings.
13 final leaves of vol. II, with commentary of the Mordechai on Minor Tractates, by R. Mordechai Banet, not listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book.
Enclosed with the set are several additional copies of some of the title pages: one copy of title page of part III, two copies of title page of part IV, one copy of title page of part V, two copies of title page of part VIII (some leaves with open tears and worming).

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Torah commentary authored by R. Avraham Ibn Ezra. [Constantinople: Astruc de Toulon, 1514]. Second edition.
Incomplete copy. 3-85 leaves. Lacking title page and leaves 2, 86-87 (replaced in photocopy – on early leaves with original ownership inscriptions from the 18th-19th century). 29 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including significant dampstains. Wear. Open tears, including large open tears to some leaves, with significant damage to text, repaired with paper (with handwritten and photocopy text replacements). Worming, affecting text. Some leaves may have been supplied from a different copy. New binding. Slipcased.

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