Chumash set – Tikun Sofrim, Five Books of the Torah, with Haftarot. Amsterdam: sons of Shlomo Proops Katz, [1751]. Fine five-volume set.
Original elaborate leather bindings, with gilt decorations. Title pages for books of the Torah only at beginning of first two volumes. Divisional title page at end of each volume.

Five volumes. Bereshit: [8], 88; [3], 8 leaves. Leaves 37-44 misordered. Leaf 39 appears twice. Shemot: [1], 89-162; [8]-18 leaves. [1] leaf with Song of the Sea, originally appearing at the end of Shemot volume, bound at beginning of Bereshit volume. Vayikra: 163-212; [19]-25 leaves. Bamidbar: 213-283; 27-28, [1], 29-32 leaves. Devarim: 284-333, 335-347; 33-55, [1] leaves. Missing leaf 334. 20 cm. Gilt edges (slightly faded). Good condition. Stains. Few tears to several leaves. Original leather bindings, with original color endpaper. Damage to bindings.

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Torat Moshe, set of Books of the Torah with German translation and Minchah Chadashah commentary by R. Meir Calvo, edited by R. Wolf Heidenheim. Rödelheim: Wolf Heidenheim, 1818-1821. Five volumes.
The German translation is that of Moses Mendelssohn.
Haftarot and Shabbat prayers added to each volume (with divisional title page).
Lengthy pre-subscriber length at the end of Devarim volume, over [6] leaves.
At the end of Shemot and Bamidbar volume, and at the beginning and end of the Devarim volume, appear original advertisements, printed on blue paper, with comments by R. Wolf Heidenheim's on the edition.
Ownership inscription on endpapers.

Five volumes. Bereshit: [3], 143; 24; 4; 54 leaves. Shemot: [1], 137; 28; 78, [1] (original printed blue wrapper) leaves. Vayikra: [1], 107; 24; 80 leaves. Bamidbar: [1], 134, [1]; 16; 50, [1] (original printed blue wrapper) leaves. Devarim: [1] (original printed blue wrapper), [1], 129; 18; 52, [6] leaves. 16.5-17 cm. Overall good condition. Stains. Light wear to some volumes. Few tears. Bottom of Vayikra title page cut off, not affecting text. Original uniform bindings, with leather spines. Much damage and wear to bindings (open tears to some spines).

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Psalterium Sextuplex, Hebraeum, cum tribus latinis videlicet, Divi Hieronymi, R. P. Sanctis Pagnini & Felicis Pratensis [Book of Tehillim, Hebrew text with five translations]. Lyon (France): Sebastian Gryphius, 1530.
First Hebrew Book of Tehillim printed in France.
This is Part I of the book, which contains the entire Hebrew text of Tehillim accompanied by three Latin translations of Hieronymo, Pagnino and Pratensis, printed in four columns. Part II (with a separate inner title page), with the Vulgate translation and the Septuagint (Greek), is lacking.
The book opens with an index of the Latin names of the chapters (according to the order of the Latin alphabet).
A fine printer's device appears in the center of the title page.
Handwritten Latin inscriptions to title page and final endpaper.

[200] leaves. Lacking [160] leaves of Part II. 18 cm. Some browned leaves. Fair-good condition, beginning leaves in fair condition. Stains, including dark stains to several leaves. Wear. Worming and open tears (extensive worming to title page), slightly affecting text. Early leather binding with embossed decorations, damaged and slightly detached, with extensive worming and open tears.

Listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book according to a copy found in the Palatine Library in Parma. The book is not recorded in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, nor in the NLI catalogue.
Darlow & Moule, 1415

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Siddur "for the entire year, beautiful and elegant, arranged according to the Ashkenazi and Polish rite", with prayers and supplications, and compilation of laws, edited by Rabbi Shlomo Zalman London. Amsterdam: Orphans of Shlomo Proops, [1742].

Bound with:
* Book of Psalms, arranged according to the days of the week and month, with short and long commentaries. Amsterdam: Proops, [1740].
* Seder Ma'amadot, arranged according to the days of the week, by Rabbi Yeshaya Halevi Horowitz, the Holy Shelah. Amsterdam: Proops, [1742].

Book of Psalms with a fine illustrated title page. Small format, "in a small volume to ease the burden for travelers, of utmost beauty, both in letters and in paper and ink" (from the text on the title page). The two commentaries were first printed with the "Sha'ar HaShamayim" prayer book by the Shelah, (Amsterdam, 1717), edited by the Shelah's great-grandson R. Avraham Horowitz. At the beginning of this volume appear the words of R. Avraham Horowitz: "How to conduct oneself in reciting Psalms".
The extensive commentary is by R. Moshe ben Israel de Mercado from his "Commentary on Ecclesiastes and Psalms" (Amsterdam, 1653), which was inserted into the 1717 edition with changes (see: Rabbi Yitzchak Yeshaya Weiss, On the Editions of the 'Shelah Siddur' and its Commentaries, Tzefunot, 17, 1993, pp. 28-31). The author of the short commentary may be Rabbi Avraham Horowitz.
This Psalms is bound with "Seder Ma'amadot" arranged by the Shelah, as stated on the title page: "As arranged by the great Gaon, the divine Kabbalist Rabbi Yeshaya Horowitz Segal...", with "sufficient commentary" (by Rabbi Avraham Saraval). On the verso of the title page is stated that "the first printer [in the Amsterdam, 1717 edition, appended to the "Sha'ar HaShamayim" prayer book] did not manage" to print the Ma'amadot with the additions of the Shelah, and here they were integrated for the first time.

Siddur: [8], 184; 186 leaves. Psalms and Ma'amadot: 88; 60 leaves. Approx. 16 cm. Gilt and decorated fore-edges. Most leaves in good condition. Stains. Minor wear and signs of use to some leaves. Tears, including small open tears to margins of title page and several other leaves, partially repaired with paper, not affecting text. New leather binding, incorporating parts of the original leather binding (on spine and back binding board). With metal clasps.

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