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(ROTHSCHILD, AMSCHEL MAYER). Chamisha Chumshei Torah - Tikun Sophrim [Pentateuch]. - With Rashi's commentary. With Nikud. Five parts in five volumes. THE AMSCHEL MAYER ROTHSHILD COPY with his signatures  on the title-pages of Vols. I, IV and V. Later uniform roan-backed marbled boards, gently rubbed. 8vo Vinograd, Amsterdam 2245. Amsterdam, Widow and Orphans Proops, 1797 THE AMSCHEL MAYER ROTHSCHILD SET OF CHUMASHIM. Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1773-1855) led the Frankfurt branch of the famed family of bankers. Born in Kassel, where his father, Mayer Amschel, founded the business, Amschel Mayer remained a pious man, indeed he was the primary financial backer of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch's groundbreaking breakaway Orthodox community.