67 128 (BIBLE). Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo De. Variae Lectiones Veteris Testamenti. FIRST EDITION. Four volumes. Wide-margined set. Ex-library. Contemporary boards, rebacked. Sm. folio. Parma, 1784-88. $200-300 ❧ Landmark collection of variant readings of the Old Testament. Sy nt hesizing t y pog raphical, bibliographical, and textual scholarship, De Rossi brought together more findings from both Masoretic manuscripts and old printed editions than any scholar had until then. 129 (BIBLIOGR A PH Y). Asiphath M e n a c h e m . M a n u s c r i p t . Exceptional illuminated title-page prepared in gouache and pen- and-ink. Original morocco with silver corner-pieces and central clasp. Folio. 1929. $800-1200 ❧ Elaborate ledger with alphabetized Hebrew thumb-holders prepared for the celebrated Hebrew book-collector Rabbi Menachem Mendel Eckstein of Cleveland. Upon his death in 1946, he left behind a library of 16,000 volumes. 130 (BINDING). Machzor Rosh HaShanah. With Kavanath HaPaytan and Judaeo German translation. Upper cover tooled: “Matanah Ledrasha MehaGaon HaMefursam…Shaul Halevi…Ume’Ishto HaRabbanith Marath Dinah…Lehabachur Hamufla …Yoshia…ben Harav Hamefursam Yissachar Berish Halevi MeC[open]H[agen].” Rear cover tooled: “Kanithi …Hague, Be’ad 13 Zehuvim. 18th Elul 1786…Hirsch bar Yissachar.” Elaborately gilt-tooled with floral patterns and a central cartouche depicting a peacock. ff. (1), 32, 64. Light wear to extremities. 8vo. Amsterdam, Proops Brothers, 1768. $5000-6000 ❧ A most attractive and elaborately gilt-tooled 18th-century binding. A gift from Rabbi and Madame Saul Halevi of the Hague to a young man in Copenhagen. Lot 128 Lot 129 Lot 130 R abbi S au l Ha lev i (1712- 85), Rabbi of the Aschkenazic congregation of the Hague, was the son-in-law of Chief Rabbi Aryeh Leib of Amsterdam, who in turn, was the son-in-law of the famed “Chacham Tzvi”, R. Tzvi Hirsch Aschkenazi, first Chief Rabbi of the Aschkenazi community of Amsterdam. During Chief Rabbi Saul’s tenure, and in no small measure due to his support, The Hague blossomed as a major center of Hebrew printing. Indeed Rabbi Saul’s wife Dinah, was herself publicly celebrated for her own level of scholarship. See M.H. Gans, Memorbook p. 243.