b'Lot 44 Lot 4544BACHIAH BEN ASHER. Biur al HaTorah [Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch]. Title letters within decorative woodcut vignettes. Scattered marginalia, signed by censors on recto and verso of nal leaf; wherever censored, the censored words are resupplied in the margin. ff. 286. Title supplied from a slightly shorter copy, some staining, Later elaborate blind-tooled morocco, extremities rubbed. 4to. [Vinograd, Riva 4.] Riva di Trento, Jacob Marcaria & Joseph Ottolenghi, 1559. $600 - $800 For an excellent study on the Kabbalistic sources of R. Bachiah, see E. Gottlieb, Mekorotav shel R. Bachyabe-Kitvei R. Yoseph Gikatilla, in Bar Ilan University Annual, Vol. I (1969) pp. 3063-26; idem, R. Yitzchak Sagi Nahor ve-Talmidav - Mekorot R. Bachya be-Kitvei ha-Mekubalim, Bar Ilan University Annual, Samuel Bialoblocki Memorial Volume, (1964) pp. 215-50.45BACHIAH BEN ASHER. Shulchan (shel) Arba [on proper conduct at the table, benedictions, the Banquet in the World to Come, and resurrection of the dead]. Printers device on title (cf. Yaari, Printers Marks no. 40). ff. (20). Some staining, previous owners marks. Modern tooled calf. Sm. 4to. [Vinograd, Prague 82.] Prague, Moses Weisswasser, 1596. $400 - $600 The inuence of R. Bachiahs Kabbalistic thought can be clearly determined throughout this short treatise.23'