Bidspirit auction | ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC. Mirkeveth HaMishneh

ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC. Mirkeveth HaMishneh [commentary to the Book of Devarim]. FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural floral border. On final page, printer's marks of Tobias Foa and Joseph Shalit (Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 19-20). ff. 145, (1). Ex-library, some browning and staining, title repaired affecting portion of upper right corner, tape repairs on f. 110. Signature of censor on final page. Modern calf-backed boards. Folio. Vinograd, Sabbioneta 1; Stefansky, Sifrei Yesod 12. Sabbioneta, Tobias Foa, 1551. THE FIRST HEBREW BOOK PRINTED IN SABBIONETA, a walled town in the Lombardy region of Northern Italy. The introduction by the editor-publisher recounts how the press came to be established. This copy with the rare unnumbered final leaf containing a full-page poem by Azariah di Rossi (author of Me’or Einayim).