b'155 LUZZATTO, MOSES CHAIM. (RaMCHaL). Leshon Limudim [rules of poetry, with Kabbalistic inuence]FIRST EDITION.Hebrew text, with Latin and Italian side-bars. A wide-margined copy. ff. 56, (1). Touch stained. Final errata page laid down. Contemporary calf-backed boards, worn, opening hinge split. 8vo. [Vinograd, Mantua 340.] Mantua, Raphael Hayim DItalia, 1727. $1000 - $1500 Leshon Limudim was Luzzattos rst appearance in print, composed when the author was just twenty years old. The work is dedicated to Luzzattos mentor, Rabbi Isaiah Bassani and includes a poem in honor of the author by David Finzi, who would eventually become Luzzattos father-in-law. See Waxman, History of Jewish Literature III, pp. 104-5.156 MEDINA, SAMUEL DE. Ben Shmuel.FIRST EDITION.Verso of title-page with elaborate stamp of Jacob di Meburah of Tripoli. ff. 125. Few leaves shorter, stained and wormed in places, taped repairs. Modern boards. Sm. 4to. [Vinograd, Mantua 205.] Mantua, Judah Samuel Perugia and son Joshua, 1622. $400 - $600 Samuel de Medina (1506-1589), known by the acronym MaHaRaSHDaM, was one of the outstanding Halachic decisors of the 16th-century. The yeshivah he founded in Salonika (which was supported by the noble Donna Gracia Mendes-Nasi) gave rise to several famous scholars from throughout the Ottoman Empire.The present work, a book of thirty sermons, was published by his grandson Shemaiah. In his discourses, de Medina makes extensive use of the Spanish philosophical literature, such as Maimonides Guide and Crescas Or Ado-nai. See M.S. Goodblatt, Jewish Life in Turkey in the XVIth Century, as Reected in the Legal Writings of Samuel de Medina (1952); L. Bornstein, Maphteach Le Shut R. Shmuel de Medina (1979); EJ. Vol. XI, cols. 1212-14.157 MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL. The Conciliator A Reconcilement of the Apparent Contradictions in Holy Scripture.FIRST ENGLISH EDITION.Translated by Elias Haim Lindo. Occasional use of Hebrew. Complete in two volumes. Vol. I: pp. 312.*Vol. II: pp. 336. Lightly foxed in places. Contemporary boards, vol. I binding distressed. 4to. London, Duncan & Malcolm, 1842. $500 - $700 First appearing in Spanish in Amsterdam 1632, this work was primarily aimed to strengthen the faith of the Marranos in the veracity of the Tanach according to Jewish interpretation.The breadth of Menassehs encyclopedic knowledge here is remarkable. There are citations from no fewer than 221 Jewish and 54 Gentile authorities. No reader could fail to be impressed by the amazing range of titles which the author proudly appended to the work (Cecil Roth, A Life of Menasseh ben Israel (1945) p. 88).The Conciliator, Menasseh ben Israels magnum opus, assured the author a place of prominence in Amsterdams Jewish community.78'