b'P R I N T E D B O O K S1ABOAB, ISAAC. Menorath HaMaor [The Candelabrum of Light: Ethical Treatise]. Printers device at end. Title set in architectural arch. ff.116. Opening and closing leaves supplied from another copy, stained in places, closely trimmed affecting some headers, trace wormed. Modern boards. Folio. [Vinograd, Mantua 95.] Mantua, Brothers Fillipono, 1563. $500 - $700 First published in Constantinople in 1514, Menorath HaMaor has been an immensely popular and inspirational ethical work through the centuries. The publisher states on the title-page of the present edition that based upon an old manuscript recently discovered, many errors that appeared in earlier editions have here been corrected.2ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC. Miphaloth Elo-him [The Deeds of God: on the question of creation ex nihilo, miracles, and prophecy].FIRST EDITION.ff. 96. Title repaired with minor loss and with previous owners marks, few marginal repairs, lightly stained. Modern calf. 8vo. [Vinograd, Venice 771.]Venice, Giovanni di Gara, 1592. $500 - $700 In this treatise, Don Isaac Abrabanel (1437-1508), former nance minister to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel of Spain, Bible exegete and philosopher, takes up the cudgels with Aristotles theory of the eternity of the world, mustering logical proofs to demonstrate that the world was created in actual time.3ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC. Atereth Zekenim [Crown of the Elders: philosophy]. Appended short essay by Abrabanel, Tzuroth HaYesodoth [medieval science].FIRST EDITION.Title within wreathed architectural columns with warriors standing at base; on f. 40v. printers device (Yaari, Hebrew Printers Marks 20-21). On title and f. 4v signature of R. Abraham Joseph Solomon Graziano - Ish Ger. Also a European signature Eger. ff.40, (4). Light staining. Previous owners inscriptions. Modern morocco. Sm. 4to. [Vinograd, Sabbioneta 44.] Sabbioneta, Tobias Foa, 1557. $1200 - $1800THE ISH-GER COPY. The departure point for this slim tract is the passage in Exodus 24:9-11 which treats of the mystical vision of the Seventy Elders of Israel. Maimonides contends - as did the Midrash - that the apprehension of these Elders was improper, and that they eventually received their just punishment at Taberah (see Guide of the Perplexed I, 5). Don Isaac Abrabanel takes umbrage, writing this tract in defense of the Elders; hence the title, Crown of the Elders.See discussions in M. Kellner, Science in the Bet Midrash: Studies in Maimonides (2009) pp. 202-3; 313, n. 82; S. Regev, The Vision of the Nobles of Israel in the Jewish Philosophy of the Middle Ages, in Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought 4 (1984-85) pp. 281-302.1'