Shulchan Aruch, with Be'er HaGolah, Orach Chaim, Yoreh Deah, Even HaEzer and Choshen Mishpat. Amsterdam: Immanuel Athias, 1697-1699. Complete set, four parts in four volumes. Two title pages for each part, the first with copper engraving depicting angelic figures.

Early leather bindings (non-uniform; two with many gilt decorations and color endpaper; the other two gilt and inscribed on spine).

The colophon of Yoreh Deah (p. 302b), and the second title page of Even HaEzer, are dated with the chronogram "Nachat" (5458/1698, the birth year of the Baal Shem Tov; resembling the chronogram appearing on the title page of the Shlah, printed in the same Amsterdam press that year).

Four volumes. Orach Chaim: [24], 266, [2] leaves. Yoreh Deah: [1], 302, [1] leaves. Even HaEzer: [1], 178, 178-180, [1] leaves. Choshen Mishpat: [1], 432, [1] leaves. 15.5 cm. Overall good condition. Stains. Creases to margins in several places. A few marginal tears to several leaves. Early leather bindings (non-uniform). Wear and defects to bindings.

Bookplates of Mozes Heiman Gans.

Mishneh Torah by the Rambam. Amsterdam: Immanuel son of Yosef Athias, [1702-1703]. Four-volume set.

Three of four volumes of the set are in original wood and leather bindings (with new spines and endpapers), with decorations (gilt decorations in first volume).

At end of each book is bound the corresponding part of Lechem Mishneh on the Rambam, by R. Avraham de Boton. Amsterdam: Immanuel son of Yosef Athias; Shlomo son of Yosef Katz Proops, 1703-1714.

The present edition was the best-proofread edition of the Rambam, and served as a prototype for later editions. In two volumes, illustrative charts for Laws of Shabbat, Sukkah, Kiddush HaChodesh and Kilayim.

Ownership inscriptions to title pages of Parts II and IV: "Mordechai Larido"; "Avraham Larido" [possibly R. Avraham Larido, a 19th century Gibraltar rabbi, an author of Dat Yehudit, Jerusalem, 1878]. Non-Hebrew inscriptions on title page of volume III.

Four volumes. Volume I: [9], 327, [4]; [3], 49 leaves. Lacking both title pages (with photocopy replacements). [2] leaves of illustrative charts appear before leaf 1. Part II: [2], 227, [4]; 52 leaves. Volume III: [1], 368, [9]; 54 leaves. Leaf with illustrations appears at end. Volume IV: [1], 309, [13]; 70 leaves. Volumes I, II and IV: 37.5 cm. Volume III: approx. 43 cm. Many leaves dark in various places. Varying condition of volumes; volumes I-II in overall good-fair condition, volume III in fair-poor condition, and volume IV in fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear. Some worming. In volume III, heavy and dark dampstains and traces of former dampness, covering most of the area of some leaves, and heavy and significant worming, affecting text. Tears and open tears in several places. In approx. first 10 leaves of vol. IV, large open tears, affecting text. Original wood and leather bindings, with remains of clasps, and with new leather spines and endpapers. Volume III in different (non-original) binding. Defects to bindings.

Hen Kol Chadash, poems by the kabbalist R. Moshe Zacuto (the Ramaz). Amsterdam: Shimshon Shamash and Moshe Dias, [1712].

Poems for weekdays, Shabbat, various festivals and occasions, and for Jerusalem and Hebron. With Tikun Leil Hoshana Rabba.

Rare copy printed on blue paper. We know of no other copies of this edition printed on blue paper.

Blue paper was introduced into Italian Hebrew printing early in the 16th century. Like vellum, it was used for preparing deluxe editions of books, which were printed in a limited number of copies for wealthy individuals (see: Brad Sabin Hill, Hebrew Printing on Blue and Other Coloured Papers, in: Otzrot Yaakov, Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library, London and New York 2011, pp. 84 ff; the present book is not listed as one of the books printed on blue paper in the Valmadonna Trust Library).

[1], 19, 19-22 leaves. 19 cm. Good condition. Stains (many stains to some leaves). Paper repairs and remains of paper repairs on margins of several leaves. Gilt edges (faded). Bookplate. Old leather binding, with defects, without spine.

Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.

Pi Shnayim, commentary on the Order of Zeraim by Rabbeinu Asher (the Rosh), with additions by the publisher R. Elisha son of R. Avraham, and novellae by R. Yaakov Emden and R. Moshe Chagiz. Altona: Aharon son of Eliyahu Katz, [1735]. First edition of the commentary of the Rosh to the Order of Zeraim. Contains illustrative diagrams.

This work was published by R. Elisha son of R. Avraham of Grodno from a manuscript belonging to R. David Oppenheim. The book includes approbations by R. Moshe Chagiz, who was in Altona in the year the book was printed, and R. Yaakov Emden (Yaavetz), in Altona that year. R. Yaakov Emden added to his approbation an extract from his novellae to Tractate Rosh Hashanah, which was printed after the publisher's introduction. Several pages of novellae by R. Moshe Chagiz were printed at the end of the book (of which the publisher writes "what I found in the handwriting of the Torah scholar R. Moshe Chagiz of Jerusalem…").

Signature on title page. Another ownership inscription deleted with ink, and inscription in Latin characters dated 1796. Inside back board, mounted leaves [apparently from original binding, with early wax stains and various inscriptions and signatures in Hebrew and Latin characters].

[10]; 8, [8]; 1-21, [7], 29-76, 101-108 leaves (misfoliation). Approx. 20 cm. Browning of paper to many leaves (mainly in text area). Good-fair condition. Stains. Small marginal tears to several leaves. Bookplate. New fabric binding.

Provenance: Collection of Yosef Weinman (1906-1974).