Pentateuch and Haphtaroth). Tikun Sopherim. - Quinque Libri Mosis.

(BIBLE, Hebrew.

for Samuel Rodrigues Mendes, Moses Sarfati and David Gomes da Silva

Amsterdam

1726

Six parts bound in one. Opening engraved rococo title-page by Bernard Picart, very finely hand-colored . Opening title with putti supporting an open Torah Scroll and coronet above with vignettes below depicting Biblical episodes from the lives of Samuel, Moses and David. Letterpress title in Spanish and Hebrew. Additional hand-colored title prior to Book of Haphtaroth . Binding: Contemporary Dutch red morocco, broad gilt decorative border “au pointille,” diamond-shaped center ornaments, elaborately gilt paneled spine, black morocco doublures with the same “au pointille” border, gilt flowered and marble endpapers, edges gilt, gauffered and painted. Two silver clasps in the shape of columns with embossed silver catches, marked by the silversmith (lion rampant, with initial “l’, Labe). The inner clasps, each signed with two stamps bearing the initials ‘D.H.’ and ‘R.I.’ respectively.

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1292.

Bound in an elaborate 18th-century Dutch binding, a particularly resplendent hand-colored copy of a delightful Bible “famed for its beautiful type and for its accuracy.” Gans, Memorbook (1971) p.186, no. 10.