b'181 SHALOM, ABRAHAM BEN ISAAC. Neveh Shalom [philosophy]. Second edition. Title set in architectural arch. Signed by censor at end. ff.(4), 213, (15). Slightly damp-wrinkled, few stains. Modern vellum-backed marbled boards. 4to. [Vinograd, Venice 607.] Venice, Giovanni di Gara, 1575. $300 - $500 A series of homilies on various Aggadic passages from the Talmud, interwoven with a philosophical discussion meant to serve as a defense of Maimonides reconciliation of Greek philosophyandJewishthought.Theauthorclearlyhada thorough command of the elds of knowledge of his time, as this work is rich in quotations from Greek and Arabic philosophical literature. See EJ, XIV, cols. 1270-1.182 SHAPIRO, NATHAN (Attributed to). Biurim [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch].FIRST EDITION.Title within a garlanded architectural arch. Opening words within a decorative woodcut. Woodcut illustration of the ladder of Jacob on f. 28; the Temple candelabra on f. 85; eight of the spies carrying a large bunch of grapes on verso of f. 131; map of Biblical Israel on verso of f. 150.EXTENSIVE MARGINALIAon verso of title, verso of nal leaf and 132b, 133a, 134b, 169a, 175b, 176a, 177b. Signatures of previous owners on title (Elchanan b. Yekuthiel) and first leaf stating that the volume had belonged to the deceased Lipman Betman. Names of other owners on nal leaf legible (Eliezer b. Hachaver R. Menachem) but crossed out. ff. 180. Stained and wormed. Modern boards. Sm. 4to. [Vinograd, Venice 778; Mehlman 609.] Venice, Matteo Zannetti (for Bernardo Justinian), 1593. $1000 - $1500 This work was banned in the districts of Lublin and Cracow as the authors son stated that it was falsely attributed to his father in order to promote sales. He later published his fathers actual writings on Chumash Rashi under the name Imrei Shepher in 1597. See E. Katzman, Yeshurun, Vol. XIII; P. Krieger, Parshandatha (2005) 366. Regarding the map, see Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land, no. W.10.The marginalia on the verso of the title states all this I heard in the name of my teacher HaGaon HaGadolGershon The marginalia on 169a are also signed M(oreinu) H(arav) R. Gershon.183 SHAPIRO,NATHAN.MatzathShimurim[Kabbalistictreatise concerning the precepts Mezuzah, Tzitzith and Tellin].FIRST EDITION.Title within textual and typographic frames. Kabbalistic charts. With ownership stamps ofAHARON MOSHE MIGEZA TZVI MIBRODY(1775-1845). ff. 8, (4), 9-12, 21-84 (i.e. 80 leaves). Lightly stained and wormed in places. Modern boards. Sm. 4to. [Vinograd, Venice 1346.] Venice, Antonio Rezzini - Vendramin, 1660. $600 - $900 Nathan Shapira HaYerusahlami is considered one of the Gurei HaAri, the repositors of the kabbalistic tradition of the Ari, R. Isaac Luria. See Yaari, Shluchei Eretz Israel (1977) p. 28087'