62 116 BACHIAH BEN ASHER. Shulchan shel Arba [laws and customs on proper conduct at table, benedictions, the Banquet in the World to Come and resurrection of the dead]. FIRST EDITION. Issued without title-page. Marginalia. ff. 14. Trimmed, few light stains, small marginal repair to first and final leaf. Modern tooled calf, slip-case. Sm. 4to.[Vinograd, Mantua 15; Mehlman 961; St. Cat. Bodl. col. 779, no. 16.] Mantua, Samuel Latif, 1514. $3000-5000 ❧ Mehlman and Vinograd call for ff. 16 (counting two blanks); Steinschneider has ff. 14 as our copy. Bizarrely, the colophon misattributes the author of the work. 117 BACHIAH BEN ASHER. Biur al Hatorah [Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch]. Title letters within decorative woodcut vignettes ff. 286. Lightly stained, several leaves expertly repaired with some loss along inner margins, title laid to size, some marginalia. Recased into blind-tooled calf over thick wooden boards, rebacked. 4to.[Vinograd, Riva 4.] Riva di Trento, Jacob Marcaria & Joseph Ottolenghi, 1559. $800-1200 Lot 116 Lot 117 Lot 118 118 BACHIAH BEN JOSEPH IBN PAQUDA. Chovoth HaLevavoth. Translated by Judah ibn Tibbon. Signatures on title-page, including Shmuel Halberstam and Leib Dresden, listed as a subscriber in Herz Homberg’s Imrei Shefer. Marginalia. ff. 103. Stained, few wormholes. Later gilt-ruled mottled calf, worn. Sm. 4to.[Vinograd, Mantua 62.] Mantua, n.p., 1559. $1000-1500 ❧ An attractive copy of this classic work, with new corrections plus seven leaves of indices to Bible and Talmudim. Throughout the ages, Chovoth HaLevavoth enjoyed wide popularity in a variety of circles, although in later centuries Eastern European Jews would shy away from the introductory Sha’ar HaYichud, which is of a decidedly philosophical nature, and focus instead on the remainder of the work, with its ethical guidance. One of the “Tikunim” proposed by R. Ezekiel Landau, to a man who wished to rectify acts of promiscuity, was to study in-depth the Chovoth HaLevavoth. See his responsum in Noda BeYehuda Part 1, no. 35.