Tikun Soferim (Pentatuech and Haftarot), Amsterdam: 1726, six volumes

Complete in six volumes; vol. I: ff. (9), 81. vol. II: ff. (1), 82-149. vol. III: ff. (1),150-198. vol. IV: ff. (1),199-267. vol. V: ff. (1), 268-327. f.272. vol. VI: ff. (1), 328-446 (4 of 6) (pp. 16). Only lacking two unnumbered leaves in vol. VI. First five volumes with exquisite engraved historiated title by Bernard Picart, first volume with additional title in Spanish and Hebrew, last volume with title within engraved cartouche by Picart. Includes Hebrew poems dedicated to various notables. The final volume includes Solomon de Olivera's Calendario, with three folding tables.An attractive set, uniform contemporary Dutch mottled calf, elaborately gilt, spines in panels, covers within floral borders, spine in compartments, marbled endpapers and flyleaves.

Famed for its beautiful type and for its accuracy, this was the only Hebrew book for which Picart prepared engravings. He was of course intimately familiar with the Jewish community in Amsterdam due to his monumental Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde. The finely drawn cartouches on the title pages of volumes 1-5 are scenes in the lives of the biblical namesakes of the sponsors of the publication, Samuel Rodriges Mendes, Moses Zarfati De Gerona, and David Gomez Da Silva. Under a royal crown, David meets Jonathan with the descriptive biblical verse: "The life of my lord shall be bound up in the bonds of life" (Samuel 1, 25:29). Under the crown of priesthood are Hannah and her infant son, Samuel, "And she called his name Samuel, for 'I asked him of the Lord"' (Samuel 1, 1:20). In the third cartouche, the baby Moses is brought before the Pharoah's daughter, "And she called his name Moses, because I have drawn him out of the waters" (Exodus, 2:10).