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(MOSES MENDES SEIXAS). Tikun Sopherim - Quinque Libri Mosis. - (AMERICAN JUDAICA). (MOSES MENDES SEIXAS).  Tikun Sopherim - Quinque Libri Mosis. Six volumes. THE MOSES M. SEIXAS SET OF CHUMASHIM - WITH HIS NEAT SIGNATURE ON TITLE-PAGE OF EACH VOLUME, with year alongside, “5531” (1771). First five volumes with exquisite engraved historiated title by Bernard Picart, first volume with additional letterpress title in Spanish and Hebrew, last volume (Haphtaroth) with title within engraved cartouche by Picart. Includes Hebrew poems dedicated to various notables. The 6th volume includes Solomon de Olivera’s Calendario, with three folding tables. Uniform contemporary Dutch mottled calf, elaborately gilt, spines in panels, covers within floral borders, spine in compartments, marbled endpapers. ff. (8), 327; (1), 328-446, (6), pp.16. Trace foxed. Spines rubbed, cover of final volume detached. Sm. 8vo. Vinograd, Amsterdam 1292. Amsterdam, for Samuel Rodrigues Mendes, Moses Sarfati and David Gomes da Silva, 1726. THIS BEAUTIFULLY BOUND PENTATEUCH BELONGED TO MOSES MENDES SEIXAS OF NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND.  New York born Seixas (1744-1809) settled in Newport where he was one of the founders of the Bank of Rhode Island. As president of Newport’s historic Touro Synagogue he led the congregation's welcome to new President George Washington. It was Moses Mendes Seixas who composed the letter of congratulations presented by the Jewish community to Washington whose response included the famous refrain that his government ”gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.”