b'178 SAMEGAH, JOSEPH. Porath Yoseph [novellae on the works of R. Isaac Alfasi and R. Nissim Gerondi to Tractates Kethuboth and Chullin and independent novellae to Tractate Beitzah].FIRST EDITION.ff.154. Light stains, trace wormed, ff. 57-60 bound out of sequence. Modern calf. 4to. [Vinograd, Venice 748.] Venice, Giovanni di Gara, 1590. $400 - $600179 SAMUEL BEN JOSEPH HAKOHEN. Ner Mitzvah [sermons based on Maimonidess Thirteen Principles of Faith].FIRST EDITION.Title set within architectural arch. With poems by Judah Aryeh de Modena and Samuel Archivolti praising the author and this work (p. 4b and 215b). THE SOLOMON OF DUBNO COPY , with his signature (and others including Juspe Cohen and Aharon Pintchov) on title-page; Adolph Lewisohn morocco book-label. ff. 212 (of 216), lacking ff. 185-8. Some worming and staining, few leaves repaired. Recent gilt-ruled calf. Sm. 4to. [Vinograd, Venice 854.] Venice, Giovanni de Gara, 1598. $300 - $500 Grammarian and Bible exegete Solomon Dubno (1738-1813), one-time collaborator with Mendelssohn in the Biur project, amassed a library of more than 2,000 books and manuscripts. See EJ, Vol. VI, cols. 251-2.180 SAMUEL BEN JOSEPH HAKOHEN. Torah Or [homilies to the Book of Genesis].FIRST EDITION.ff. 307. Lacks, as all copies, the nal 58 leaves on Shemoth. Dampstained, nal 7 leaves with marginal repairs and supplied from another copy. Modern calf-backed marbled boards. 4to. [Vinograd, Venice 903; Mehlman 899.] Venice, Giovanni di Gara, 1600/1605. $400 - $600 First of an intended 4-part series entitled Minchath Kohen, of which only two volumes appeared. Indeed, even the isuance of this volume was incomplete, as the printer left out the planned sermons on the book of Shemoth in nearly all extant copies.86'