b'175 (RABAN, ZEEV). Jacobs Bible Cards. Designed by Raban. Six unopened twin-packs of boxed playing-cards, housed in the publishers original box.MINT CONDITION. Tel Aviv, Lion Playing Cards Factory, c. 1950. $1000 - $1500 Jacobs Bible Cards brings the romance and the colour of the Bible into the card-pack by substituting famous Bible characters for the conventional Kings, Queens and Jacks. These cards enable the players to combine education with pleasure. Cf. Israel Museum Catalogue, Bezalel no. 1372 and color plate 7; and Yeshiva University Museum Catalogue, Raban nos. 139-40.176 SABA, ABRAHAM. Tzeror Hamor [Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch]. Third edition. Title bearing printers device within architectural arch. Section titles set in decorative woodcut borders. Scattered marginalia. ff. 165. Upper corner of title page removed with small loss to border, signature on top of f. 2r, margins of ff. 91-3 neatly repaired, dampstained in places. Modern calf. Folio. [Vinograd, Venice 551.] Venice, Giorgio di Cavalli, 1567. $400 - $600 The author Abraham ben Jacob Saba (d. c.1508) was originally forced to bury his manuscripts in Portugal due to a decree by King Emanuel outlawing possession of Hebrew writings. He escaped to Fez, Morocco and reworked this book from memory. This edition was the first listed on an Hebrew Index Expurgatorius prepared by the Ecclesiastical authorities. It was ordered to be committed to ames. See Pierpont Morgan Library Catalogue, Hebraica from the Valmadonna Trust (1989) no. 30.177 SAMEGAH, JOSEPH. Mikraei Kodesh [Kabbalistic exposition to the Festivals and precepts].FIRST EDITION.Two parts in one. On title, signature of former owner Abraham Luria. Wide margins. ff.6, 116. Light stains, trace marginal wear, previous owners marks. Modern morocco. 4to. [Vinograd, Venice 693.] Venice, Asher Parenzo for Giovanni di Gara, 1586. $400 - $600 Compelled to leave his native Salonika due to persecution by his community, Joseph Samegah (d. 1629) moved to Venice, where he served as rabbi. He later founded a yeshivah in Padua, where among his pupils were R. Chaim Benveniste and Joseph Solomon Delmegido.85'