Mirkevet HaMishneh, commentary on the Book of Devarim (Mishneh Torah), by Don Yitzchak Abarbanel. Sabbioneta: Tobias Foa, 1551. First edition.
Illustrated title frame.
Censorship expurgations (many lines deleted on several leaves; some open tears from ink erosion).
Censors' signatures on title page and last leaf.
145, [1] leaves. 30.5 cm. Varying condition; first and last leaves in fair condition, most in good-fair condition. Stains. Light wear. Worming and small open tears, affecting text (mainly to title page and first and last leaves). Bookplate. Early binding (coated with color paper), loose, with defects (without binding).
First Hebrew book printed in Sabbioneta (Italy).
With Tobias Foa's printers' device on final page in a circular frame, next to another printer's device of R. Yosef son of R. Yaakov of Padua, as in the copy recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book (some copies have the printer's device of Tobias Foa only). See: A. Yaari, Diglei HaMadpisim HaIvriyim, Jerusalem 1944, nos. 19, 20-21.
Provenance: Collection of Prof. Jordan S. Penkower.
