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JUDAH LOEW BEN BEZALEL (MAHARAL OF PRAGUE). Tif'eret Yisra'el [exegetical work]. Venice: Jacob ben Gershom Bak for Daniel Zanetti, 1599. Title within architectural woodcut frame, signed by censor on final leaf, dated 1617. 4to, modern half morocco . Vinograd, Venice 884; Zedner 404; Cowley 399; not in Roest -- MEIR BEN BARUCH OF ROTHENBURG. Sefer She'elot u-Teshuvot [Responsa]. Prague: Moses ben Josef Betsalel Kats, 1608. 112 leaves (1-2, 5-114 as in all copies), title within architectural woodcut frame. Folio, modern brown calf-backed marbled boards; some margins cut close, a few manuscript marginalia (cropped), some leaves browned Vinograd, Prague 161; Zedner 518; Cowley 420; Roest 774, Yudlov, no. 753 -- BELIN, ELIEZER BEN JACOB. Sefer Evronot [illustrated work on the calendar ed. by Me'ir ben Nathan Yehoshua]. Offenbach: Israel ben Moses in the office of Bonaventura de la Noye, 1722. Title within architectural woodcut frame, with astronomical charts and illustrations. 4to, modern half calf; good condition . Vinograd, Offenbach 63; Zedner 221; Cowley 176 -- ASHER BEN JEHIEL AND ABRAHAM BEN DAVID OF POSQUIERES. Perush ha-Rosh ve-haRaBaD [Commentaries on the Talmudic tractates Tamid and Kinnim]. Prague: Grandsons of Judah Bak, 1725. Large paper copy. 4to, modern buckram, good condition . Vinograd, Prague 819; Zedner 60; Roest 115; Cowley 44 -- EPHRAIM BEN AARON OF LENCZYCZ [LENCZYCA]. Sefer Olelot Efrayim [Sermons]. Amsterdam: Solomon ben Joseph Proops, 1710. 4to, contemporary quarter sheep, worn . Vinograd, Amsterdam 918; Zedner 240; Cowley 188; not in Roest -- JOSHUA BEN JOSEPH OF CRACOW. Penei Yehoshu'a [Responsa, part 1]. Amsterdam: Nathanel Foa, 1715. First edition, woodcut device on title. 4to, modern cloth; 2 small holes in title, slightly affecting text on verso, wormhole in top fore-corner of following leaf, with very slight loss of text, a trifle waterstained in places . Vinograd, Amsterdam 1064; Zedner 357; Cowley 353; Roest 603. Important responsa on the history of the Jews in Poland in the 17th century. Part 2 was printed in 1860 (Enc. Judaica 10, clmn. 287) -- JOSHUA BEN JOSEPH OF CRACOW. Meginei Shelomoh [super-commentary on Rashi's Talmud commentary]. Amsterdam: Salomo ben Joseph Proops, 1715. First edition, title printed with type-ornament border, with approbation of the 'Council of Four Lands'. 4to, modern cloth; a few stains, paper a little browned . Vinograd, Amsterdam 1052; Zedner 357; Roest 603 -- AARON BEN JOSEPH HALEVI OF BARCELONA. Sefer ha-Chinnukh [on the 613 precepts]. Amsterdam: Aaron ben Solomon Antones, 1721. Title within woodcut borders depicting David playing the harp, David and Goliath etc. 8vo, modern leather antique; title pasted at inner margin to following leaf, with slight loss of border and text, respectively, a few headlines shaved or cut close . Vinograd, Amsterdam 1164; Zedner 4; Cowley 4; not in Roest -- HAGGADAH. Haggadah shel Pesach [illustrated Passover Haggadah with German translation in Hebrew characters]. Offenbach: [Zevi Hirsh Levi Spits], 1800. 8vo, contemporary quarter calf, rebacked . Vinograd, Offenbach 142; Yaari 302 -- HAGGADAH. Seder ha-Haggadah shel Pesach [Illustrated Passover Haggadah, revised by Abraham Hayyim Morpurgo]. Trieste: Jonah Cohen, 1864. All Hebrew edition. Architectural titlepage with David and Solomon crowned, Aaron mitred and Moses bareheaded. Folio, modern red morocco . See: Abraham J. Karp, From the ends of the earth: Judaic treasures of the Library of Congress (Washington 1991) p. 102ff; Yaari 898 -- SCHIFF, DAVID TEVELE (d.1792). Leshon Zahav [Responsa]. Offenbach: Abraham ben Hirsch Pressburg, 1822. 2 parts in one volume, both titles in a floral border. Folio, modern half calf . Ex libris Emil Goldschmidt on flyleaf. Vinograd, Offenbach 195; Zedner 684; Cowley 154; not in Roest. On David Tevele Schiff, Rabbi at the Great Synagogue of London, see Enc. Judaica 14, clmns. 959-960 -- NATHAN BEN JEHIEL OF ROME. Sefer he-Arukh [Lexicon of the Talmud an