Hebrew. PENTATEUCH AND HAPHTAROTH). Tikun Sopherim - Quinque Libri Mosis

AUCTION 14 | Tuesday, November 13th, 2001 at 1:00
Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 90
(BIBLE,

Hebrew. PENTATEUCH AND HAPHTAROTH). Tikun Sopherim - Quinque Libri Mosis

Six volumes (Five Books of Moses and Book of Haphtaroth). Five volumes with engraved rococo title pages by Bernard Picart with putti supporting an open Torah Scroll and coronet above with vignettes below depicting Biblical episodes from the lives of Samuel, Moses and David. First volume with additional letterpress title in Spanish and Hebrew. Further engraved title prior to Book of Haphtaroth. Hebrew poems dedicated to various notables towards end. Concluding with Solomon de Oliveyra’s Calendario, with three folding tables, Amsterdam, 1726 ff. (8), 327; (1), 328-446, (5). pp.16. Engraved titles with owner’s name “M. de Pinto” neatly incorporated into the frame. Contemporary uniform Dutch hunter-green morocco, elaborately gilt-tooled with floral border-piece centered on a decorative cartouche, spine in compartments, gilt, red morocco inlaid spine lables titled in gilt Hebrew letters, gilt extra, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. marbled endpapers. 8vo Vinograd, Amsterdam 1292; Kayserling 80-1; not in Darlow & Moule

Amsterdam: for Samuel Rodrigues Mendes, Moses Zarfati de Gerona and David Gomez 1726

Est: $3,000 - $5,000
PRICE REALIZED $5,000
Another set, individually bound in five handsome contemporary Dutch bindings