Neviim and Ketuvim. Paris: Robertus Stephanus, 1543-1546. Six volume set, without two volumes of Torah part of this edition.

Pocket format. Original leather bindings, with gilt decorations.

Each title page bears the Stephanus printer's device – an elderly man standing by a tree with several wilting branches and a banner that reads "Noli altum sapere" (Latin: Do not be proud). See: Yaari, Diglei HaMadpisim HaIvriyim, illustration 27 and p. 135.

Six volumes. Volume I (Five Megillot, Yehoshua, Shoftim): [80], [77], [73] leaves. Volume II (Shmuel, Melachim): [176], [184] leaves. Volume III (Yeshayahu, Yirmiyahu): [131], [168] leaves. Volume IV (Yechezkel, Trei Asar): [144], [117] leaves. Volume V (Tehillim, Mishlei, Iyov): [159], [53], [61] leaves. Volume VI (Daniel, Ezra and Nechemiah, Divrei HaYamim): [47], [30], [43], [183] leaves. 10.5 cm. Colored edges. Overall good condition. Stains. Small marginal tears to several leaves. Original leather bindings, with gilt decorations and gilt inscriptions on spines. Stamps on verso of title page of all volumes of Ashkenazic Beit Midrash Etz Chaim of Amsterdam. Signatures on back endpaper in Latin characters: "Ameldola".

Five Books of the Torah and Five Megillot, with Latin translation and commentary, "Hebraicus Pentateuchus Latinus". Venice: Iustinianea (Marco Antonio Giustiniani), 1551.

Printed from left to right. Translation and original on facing columns. Enlarged printer's device on separate leaf at end of book. Woodcut frames at beginnings of each book of the Torah and Shir HaShirim. At end of Devarim, Hebrew section Maalat Moshe – on the virtue of Moses (not mentioned in Bibliography of the Hebrew Book).

Old ownership inscriptions (In Italian script) to title page and beginning of Shir HaShirim: "Menachem son of R. David Franchetta Harari, 1672" (possibly a family member of R. Moshe Franchetta-Harari, teacher of R. Yedidiah Shlomo Refael Norzi, author of Minchat Shai). Another inscription (in Ashkenazic script) on title page.

CCVIII leaves, 209-376 leaves, [1] blank leaf, [1] leaf. Misfoliation and misordering of some leaves. 21 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, creases and light wear. Marginal open tears to some leaves, not affecting text. Censorship expurgation to leaf 303. Early signatures and inscriptions (Hebrew and Latin). Stamps. Bookplate. Early parchment binding, with some wear and defects.

Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.

Bible – Torah, Neviim Rishonim, Neviim Acharonim and Ketuvim. Antwerp: Chrisophe Plantin, 1565. Complete four-volume set.

All 24 books of the Bible, vocalized and with cantillation.

On last leaves of volume IV, haftarot chart.

Colophon at end of volume IV.

Ownership inscription on back endpaper of volume III. Another non-Hebrew inscription on verso.

Latin glosses to some leaves.

Four volumes.

Volume I (Torah and Five Megillot): 511, [1]; [64] leaves. Includes blank leaf in middle.

Volume II (Neviim Rishonim): [448] leaves. Last leaf blank. Before Melachim is added a handwritten title page (no printed title page had been in the place this was added).

Volume III (Neviim Acharonim): [476] leaves.

Volume IV (Ketuvim): [512] leaves. Three leaves at end of Tehillim, and last leaf, blank.

10.5-11 cm. Varying condition of volumes, good-fair to fair. Stains, including dark dampstains. Singeing to some leaves of first volume. Wear to some leaves. Tears and open tears, affecting text in several places (much wear and tears to first leaves of first volume), partially repaired with paper filling (with word supplied by hand in one leaf of volume III). Open tear to title page of volume IV (leaf reinforced by mounting on paper). Worming to some volumes, affecting text (much worming to first leaves of third volume). Volume IV evidently comprised of leaves from several copies. New bindings (uniform), with leather spine. Volumes placed in leather-coated cardboard case.

Tanach – Five Books of the Torah, Neviim and Ketuvim. Geneva: Cephas Elon (Petrus de la Rouière), 1618.

Vocalized Bible. Two columns per page. Divisional title pages for Neviim Rishonim, Neviim Acharonim and Ketuvim. The Five Megillot appear after the Book of Iyov in the present copy.

Chapters and every fifth verse numbered in right or left margins.

Ketuvim title page differs from the other title pages; it is printed in a decorated frame with the secular year in Hebrew letters (according to Steinschneider the date is to be corrected to read 1617). This title page does not appear in all copies.

[1], 2-274, 279-346, 351-369; 124 leaves. Lacking 8 leaves: 275-278, 347-350. 22 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Wear to first leaves. Small marginal tears and open tears to title page and several other leaves. Old binding, with wear and defects (open tears to spine).

Five Books of the Torah, with Five Megillot and haftarot. Venice: Giovanni Martinelli for Giovanni Vendramin, [1636].

168; 56 leaves. 17.5 cm. Fair-good to fair condition. Stains. Wear. Tears, including open tears to title page and other leaves, affecting title frame and text, partially repaired with paper. Worming, affecting text. Close trimming, affecting page headers. Early leather binding, with gilt decorations and clasps. Gilt inscription of owner's name to front of binding: "G. D.".

Bibliographically unknown edition.

Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.