Rosh David (Chida) - Mantua, 1776 - First Edition - Signatures and Glosses

Rosh David (Chida) - Mantua, 1776 - First Edition - Signatures and Glosses
Rosh David, novellae and homiletics on the Torah portions, by R. Chaim Yosef David Azulai - the Chida. Mantua, [1776]. First edition.
The only book of the Chida printed in Mantua. He published the rest of his books in Livorno (apart from the Chomat Anach commentary printed in Pisa).
Inscriptions on the title page and following leaf. Many glosses in square script. Lengthy gloss in cursive Sephardic script on p. 93 (trimmed), signed by R. Yosef Bechor Benveniste (1840-1916; emissary and Torah scholar in Jerusalem, head of the Sephardi Beit Din in Jerusalem from 1900).
Stamps of R. Yaakov Landau Rabbi of Bnei Brak.
[2], 102, 109-110, 112-137, 139-164; 5 leaves. 29 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including many significant dampstains. Worming, affecting text, repaired in part with paper. Marginal open tears to title page and several other leaves, repaired with paper. Paper reinforcements. Stamps and handwritten inscriptions. Old binding, with worming.