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GABBAI, MEIR BEN EZEKIEL IBN. Derekh Emunah (Way of Faith) [Explanation of the Kabbalistic doctrine of divine emanations (sefirot), in the form of questions and answers]. Padua: Lorenzo Pasquato & Company, for Pietro del Portel Vecchio, 1562. 28 leaves. Woodcut architectural title-border. Small 4to, 211 x 149 mm. (8¼ x 5 7/8 in.), modern quarter calf; some staining (heaviest on title-page). Second edition. Signed by Censor on the final leaf verso. Vinograd, Padua 1 (registered incomplete copy at JNUL); Steinschneider 6303, 1; Zedner 519; Roest 778; Wiener 2417; Brad Sabin Hill, Hebraica from the Valmadonna Trust , 1989, 39; Amram, p. 338 (illustrated). From the first edition, which was printed at Constantinople in 1560, only two leaves survived (Yaary, Constantinople , 157). This is the first Hebrew book printed at Padua and only one other Hebrew book was printed there during the 16th century.