b'Lot 164 Lot 165164 MOELLIN, JACOB. Shailoth UTeshuvoth Maharil [responsa]. Title surrounded by four-piece vignettes border. ff. (8), 79. Misbound but complete. Previous owners marks, light waterstains, trace wormed. Modern vellum. 8vo. [Vinograd, Cremona 4; Benayahu, Cremona 3.] Cremona, Vicenzo Conti, 1556. $500 - $700 The Maharil (c.1360-1427) was the leading rabbi of his generation and founder of a Yeshiva in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Deeply respected for his mastery of Halakha, his rabbinic rulings are considered foundational for the customs of Ashkenazic Jewry.165 MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES/ RaMBaM). Sepher HaMitzvoth [The Book of Precepts]. Translated from Judeo-Arabic by Moses ibn Tibbon.FIRST EDITION.Issued without a title page. ff. 62 (of 68). Provided in facsimile: ff. 1-3, 7-8, 68. Leaves 4-6 partially in facsimile; leaves 61-7 laid to size with loss of few letters to upper corners of nal two leaves. Lightly stained. Modern calf-backed marbled boards; housed in custom slip-case. Sm. 4to. [Vinograd, Const. 63; Mehlman 763.] Constantinople, n.p., c., 1510. $1500 - $2500RARE FIRST EDITION OF A FUNDAMENTAL RABBINIC TEXT. The most authoritative listing of all the Commandments of the Torah, along with a brief description of each.Sepher HaMitzvoth originally appeared in Arabic under the title Kitab al-Faraid and was subsequently translated into Hebrew by the Provenal rabbi Moses ibn Tibbon.81'