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). Stained in places, censored, few marginal repairs, previous owner’s marks. Modern morocco. Folio. Vinograd, Sabbioneta 1. Sabbioneta: Tobias Foa 1551 THE FIRST HEBREW BOOK PRINTED IN SABBIONETA. With the rare unnumbered final leaf containing a full-page poem by Azariah di Rossi (author of Me’or Einaiyim). With an important introduction by the editor- publisher Joseph ben Jacob of Padua concerning the establishment of the Hebrew press at Sabbioneta, a town situated in the Lombardy region of Northern Italy.