43 103 (MISHNAH) Seder Nezikin. With commentary by Moses Maimonides and Obadiah Bertinoro. DELUXE COPY, PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER. Title within architectural arch. Few text illustrations. Some censoring. ff. 116. Previous owner’s marks and inscriptions on many pages, expert marginal repairs, stained in places. Bound in Valmadonna- custom maroon blind-tooled crushed morocco, spine in compartments and titled in gilt. Sm. 4to. Housed in fitted slip-case. [Vinograd, Mantua 80; Mehlman 106.] Mantua, Jacob Cohen of Gazolo, 1562. $1500 - $2000 ❧ RARE, BIBLIOPHILIC EDITION. PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER. See Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library - Otzroth Ya’akov, Colored Paper no. 22. The Mantua volumes of this set of Mishnayoth were the last books to be typeset by Jacob Cohen before he retired. He had originally served at the press of Foa in Sabbioneta, and came to Mantua in 1556 where he established for himself a fine reputation for splendid typographical work. See Amram, The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy, pp. 288-93 and 325. Lot 104 Lot 105 Lot 103 104 (MISHNAH) Seder Nashim. With commentary of Moses Maimonides and Obadiah Bertinoro. DELUXE COPY, PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER. Title within architectural arch. ff. 82. Previous owner’s marks, occasional expert paper repairs, stained in places. Bound in Valmadonna-custom maroon blind-tooled crushed morocco, spine in compartments and titled in gilt. Sm. 4to. Housed in fitted slip-case. [Vinograd, Mantua 80; Mehlman 106.] Mantua, Jacob Cohen of Gazolo, 1561. $1500 - $2000 ❧ RARE, BIBLIOPHILIC EDITION. PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER. See Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library - Otzroth Ya’akov, Colored Paper no. 20. The first two Orders of this set of the Mishnah were printed by Foa in Sabbioneta and then completed in Mantua. 105 MORDECHAI BEN HILLEL ASCHKENAZI. Kitzur Mordechai V’Simanav [abridgment of Sepher Mordechai]. Prepared by Joshua Boaz Baruch. FIRST EDITION. ff. (2), 56. Stained. Bound in Valmadonna-custom chestnut calf, blind-tooled with gilt florets at corners. Folio. [Vinograd, Cremona 12.] Cremona, Vicenzo Conti, 1557. $1000 - $1500 ❧ R. Mordechai ben Hillel Hakohen (1240?-1298) was the outstanding disciple of R. Meir (MaHaRa’M) of Rothenburg. His compendium, arranged according to the Tractates of the Talmud, is a rich repository of the halachic traditions of Aschkenaz. See A. Siev, Hagahot HaRama al HaMordechai in: Hagut Ivrit Be’Amerika, Vol. I (1972) pp. 426-39; A. Halperin, Sepher HaMordechai BeRe’i Hadpasotav in: Iyunim BeSifrut Chazal… Melamed Festschrift (1982) pp. 323-38; EJ, Vol. XII, cols. 311- 14.