Bidspirit auction | Handsome Five-Volume Set – Tikkun

Handsome Five-Volume Set – Tikkun Sofrim HaYesharim with ' Divrei Emes' – Amsterdam, 1767 Tikkun Sofrim HaYesharim , in five volumes corresponding to the Five Books of the Torah, carefully proofread and corrected by Rabbi Itzik Premsla of Prague zt”l, with the Haftaros according to both the Ashkenazic and Sephardic customs, each with its own separate title page. Published by his son, Rabbi Hirsch, at the press of Leib ben Moshe Zusmans. Amsterdam, 1767. Each volume contains three title pages , the first engraved on copper and featuring the image of a deer (tzvi) , apparently alluding to the publisher's name, Rabbi Hirsch. At the beginning of each volume in this edition appears Divrei Emes by Rabbi Itzik Premsla , explaining the reasons behind his textual emendations. The first volume opens with the approbations printed in the first edition, together with additional haskamos from the gedolim Rabbi Shaul Levinstam, Av Beis Din of Amsterdam and author of Binyan Ariel; Rabbi Shaul HaLevi, Av Beis Din of The Hague; and Rabbi Shlomo Salem, Av Beis Din of the Sephardic community.