65 124 (BIBLE. Hebrew). Kehiloth Moshe. With numerous commentaries including Ralbag, Chizkuni, Sforno, Imrei Noam, Kometz HaMincha, Minchath Ketana, Minchath Erev, etc. FIRST EDITION of Kometz Hamincha, Minchah Ketana, Minchath Erev. Edited by R. Moshe Frankfurter. Complete in four volumes. Decorative woodcut initial word panels. Foxed and stained, trace wormed, few tears. Later uniform boards, worn. Elephant folio.[Vinograd, Amsterdam 1242] Amsterdam, Moses Frankfurter, 1724-27. $5000-7000 ❧ The seventh Biblia Rabbinica. The first Rabbinic Bible to be produced solely by Jews and by far, the most elaborate and technically superior version of the Rabbinic Bible. In addition to the standard Biblical text, Kehiloth Moshe encompasses some thirty-six separate commentaries, including sixteen previously unpublished commentaries, from the first post-medieval exegetical inclusions in a Rabbinic Bible to a host of later writers. It includes numerous features such as indices to chapters of Talmudic tractates, massorah magna and parva and massoretic variations between Ben Asher and Ben Naftali. 125 (BIBLE. Hebrew and Italian). Arba’ah Ve’esrim. Opening titles in red and black within architectural arch, three additional divisional title-pages. FOUR SPECTACULAR ENGRAVED PLATES BY FRANCESCO GRISELINI the first (frontispiece) depicting the Sacrifice of Isaac with eleven vignettes portraying the narrative is particularly elaborate. The three other plates are prior to the Former Prophets, Latter Prophets, and to the Hagiographa and depict Joshua and Samuel crowning King David; Isaiah, Ezekiel and Jeremiah; and King David reciting the Psalms. Introductory Luach HaMitzvoth and Kelalei HaDikduk by Simha Calimani. With glosses in Italian throughout translating and explaining challenging passages. Blank pages with Hebrew and Italian 18th-19th century family records recording events of the ancient CORCOS FAMILY. ff. (1), 148, (1), 108, (2), 130-348. Light wear to initial leaves, trace wormed toward end. Contemporary mottled calf, worn and shaken. Sm. folio.[Vinograd, Venice 1757; Braginsky Collection, cat. no. 150.] Venice, Bragadin for Isaac Foa, 1739-41. $2000-3000 ❧ A BEAUTIFUL BIBLE EDITION. Francesco Griselini (1717–87) was born into a family of Venetian silk-weavers and grew to be a scholar of natural history of considerable repute. He was also a talented artist; indeed Dr. Mendel Metzger in “The Earliest Engraved Italian Megilloth,” comments extensively on Griselini’s excellence as an engraver of Jewish works of art which included the design of title-pages of Hebrew printed books as well as engraved Esther Scrolls. See also L. Greenspoon, The Book of Esther in Modern Research (2003) p. 147. 126 (BIBLE. Psalms). Sepher Tehillim. With commentary Zimrath Y-ah by Samuel Zanvil ben Joseph Sternberg of Venice. pp. 452. Neat marginal taped repairs at beginning and end. Recent boards. 8vo. Zhitomir, Yitzchak Moshe Bakst, 1873. $400-600 ❧ A commentary based on the foundations of grammar and principles of logic, written in concise language. The author was the grandson of R. Israel Isser Isserlein, known for his Halachic text, Sha’ar HaMishpat. [See illustraion on facing page] Lot 124 Lot 125