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Tikun Sofrim – Amsterdam, 1762 – Fine Six-Volume Set, Five Books of the Torah with Haftarot Volume – Original, Decorated Leather Bindings
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $1,625
Including buyer's premium
Tikun Sofrim, Five Books of the Torah, with Rashi's commentary, and a special volume for haftarot. Amsterdam: Yosef, Yaakov and Avraham sons of Shlomo Proops, [1762]. Fine set in six volumes.
Two title pages at the beginning of the first volume; first title page illustrated.
Separate volume for haftarot, for both Sephardic and Ashkenazic rites.
Original fine leather bindings, with gilt decorations (including gilt decorations on both sides of each volume of winged angels holding a crown and bouquets of flowers).
Six volumes. Bereshit: [2], 75 leaves. Shemot: [1], 76-144 leaves. Vayikra: [1], 145-191 leaves. Bamidbar: [1], 192-207, 211-254 leaves. Devarim: [1], 255-308 leaves. Haftarot: [2], 73 leaves. 18.5 cm. Good to good-fair condition. Stains, many stains to some volumes. Light wear to some leaves. Small marginal tears and open tears to several leaves. Original leather bindings, with gilt decorations and original color endpaper. Defects to bindings (tear across sides of spine of one volume).
The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book records an engraved title page at the beginning of each volume. The present set (in original bindings) contains an engraved title page at the beginning of vol. I only.
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