Tikkun Sofrim – Parashiot and Haftarot. Amsterdam, 1726.
The printing was "commissioned by Samuel Rodrigues Mendes, Moses Sarfati and David Gomes da Silva". With approbations, piyyutim, and various poems.
Two title pages at the beginning of the volume. The first title page was engraved by Bernard Picart. Divisional title page for the Haftarot.
One volume comprising: Five Books of the Torah, Haftarot, table of Torah readings for the festivals, and calendars in Spanish (with folding plates). The calendar section has its own Spanish title page: Calendario facil y curiozo de las tablas lunares calculadas con las tablas solares, with a Hebrew heading: "These are the festivals of G-d, holy occasions". Amsterdam, 1726.
All the parts in one volume. [5], 3-327, [2], 329-446; [10] leaves; 16, [1] pages. Folding pp. [3-8] bound after p. 16. [6] leaves originally bound at beginning of book, bound here at end. Approx. 17 cm. Good condition. Stains. Tears to several leaves, including tear to one folding plate, slightly affecting text. Gilt edges. Original leather binding, with gilt decorations (partly faded), with original marbled endpapers. Defects and wear to binding (in particular to spine; perforations from clasps on both boards).

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Five Books of the Torah, with the Five Megillot and Haftarot. Amsterdam: Hertz Levi Rofeh and his son-in-law Cashman, [1746-1747].
Tortoise-shell binding, with silver clasps and spine; owner's name on spine: "Rivka wife of R. Moshe".
Separate title page for the Haftarot. Contains Haftarot of both Ashkenazi and Sephardi rites.
On front endpapers, a handwritten prayer to be recited on Shabbat Mevarchim, and an English ownership inscription dated 1879.
79, 90-106, 97-142, [2]; 52 leaves. Approx. 13 cm. Gilt edges. Good condition. Stains. Margins trimmed close to text, affecting headings and text on some leaves. Color endpapers. Tortoise-shell binding, with silver clasps and silver spine.

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Ezrat HaSofer, "Tikun Sofrim Vavei HaAmudim", Five Books of the Torah, with Haftarot, and with Or Torah by R. Menachem de Lonzano. Amsterdam, [1767-1769?].
Five volumes. Engraved title page in all volumes, with the Hebrew year 5529 [1768-1769]. The rest of the title pages are dated 5527 [1766-1767]. Separate title pages for the section of Haftarot in each volume, dated 5528 [1767-1768].
Printed at the beginning of Bereshit (between the engraved title page and the detailed title page) are approbations and poems in praise of the book and its editor, followed by the Meir Netiv composition regarding the Holy Names in the Torah, by R. Yehuda Piza. Printed at the end of the Book of Devarim is the Haftarah of Shabbat Eichah with Spanish translation (verse per verse), and Luchot HaIbur (calendar; separate title page; Hebrew and Portuguese) with tables.
This book was prepared as a model for scribes writing a Torah scroll (conforming with the custom known as Vavei HaAmudim – each column of the Torah scroll starting with the letter Vav). Shirat HaYam and Shirat Haazinu are printed on wider leaves, fitting with their layout in the Torah scroll (open tears to Shirat HaYam in this copy).
Five volumes. Bereshit: [11], 65; 26 leaves. Shemot: [1], [67]-121; [2], 28 leaves. Vayikra: [1], [122]-163; [2], 24 leaves. Bamidbar: [2], [165]-221; [2], 16 leaves. Devarim: [2], [223]-272, [1]; [3], 277-290; [8] leaves. Approx. 18 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Dampstains. Minor worming. Open tears, affecting text of Shirat HaYam. Several partially detached leaves. Handwritten inscriptions. Original, gilt-decorated leather binding, with original color endpapers. Wear and damage to bindings (some slightly detached). Tears to spines (one vol. lacking spine).
At the same time, another edition appeared, unvowelized and without the numbering of the chapters.

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Disassembled book binding, with the leaves it contained – rare printed leaf fragments, including a leaf from an unknown Talmud edition:
• Leaf from tractate Berachot (end of chapter I and beginning of chapter II), from an unknown Talmud edition, presumably printed in Constantinople, ca. 1590. Leaf almost complete.
• Fragment from Tractate Shabbat. Venice: Bomberg, 1520.
• Leaves from Five Book of the Torah with commentaries, Constantinople 1522 edition.
• Leaf fragments from Akedat Yitzchak, presumably Salonika 1522 edition.
• Leaves from Arbaa Turim, Choshen Mishpat part, Constantinople 1540 edition.
• Two fragments from Tractate Chullin, Salonika 1566 edition.
• Leaves from the book Yefeh Toar, Venice 1597 edition.
• Other fragments (including leaf fragments from an unidentified manuscript).
The binding was made of early printed leaves pasted together with several manuscript leaves, and covered in leather. The present item includes the leaves and leather covering after careful disassembly.
Approx. 30 leaf fragments. Size and condition vary.

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