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[Abravanel, Judah]. Dialoghi di amore, di Leone Hebreo medico. Di nuovo corretti; et ristampati, Venice: Domenico Giglio, 1558, worming in gutter (affecting text in quires B, E-F, I-K and 2H), 2H7-8 blank, manuscript catch-title to bottom edge, contemporary limp vellum, ties perished, soiled, 8vo (15.4 x 10.2 cm), together with: [Branteghem, Willem van]. Jesu Christi vita, juxta quatuor Evangelistarum enarrationes, artificio graphices perquam eleganter picta, una com totius anni Evangeliis ac Epistolis, 2nd edition, Antwerp: Matthew Crom, 1541, woodcut title border, half-page woodcut vignettes throughout the text, light browning, fore edges of front free endpaper, A1-2 and G3 repaired or strengthened, spine guarded with contemporary vellum manuscript fragments, contemporary limp vellum, ties perished, 8vo (15.6 x 9.5 cm), Staphylus (Friedrich). Theologiae Lutheranae trimembris epitome, 1st edition, Antwerp: Jan Verwithagen, 1558, woodcut title device, old ownership inscription 'J. F. Vandevelde, Lovanii', bookplate to front pastedown, 20th-century collector's ink-stamps to front pastedown and free endpaper, c.1700 marbled calf, rebacked, worn, 8vo (13.7 x 8.3 cm), Irenaeus (Saint). Contra haereses, Paris: Vivant Gaultherot, 1545, worming (often affecting text), front inner hinge cracked, contemporary blind-tooled ?deerskin, 8vo (16.6 x 10.6 cm) (Qty: 4) Adams A63, B1825, S1641, I152. Abravanel's Dialoghi di Amore is considered a key work in the transition from medieval to Renaissance Jewish philosophy; first published at Rome in 1535 (in Italian), it was widely translated and read throughout Europe.