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BIBLE. (Hebrew, Pentateuch & Haphtaroth). Me’or Einayim. Prepared by Wolf Heidenheim. With commentary Ein HaKore and Ein HaSofer. * Bound with:  Sabbath Day Prayers. Two volumes. Each volume with five divisional title-pages. Small excision to opening title otherwise A flawless set, printed on thicker paper. Original gilt-ruled vellum with morocco spine-labels, all edges gilt, hinge of one vol. starting. Thick 8vo. Vinograd, Rödelheim 71. Rödelheim, Wolf Heidenheim, 1818-21. The first of four editions of the Chumash that Heidenheim issued between 1818 and 1821.  A student of R. Nathan Adler in Frankfurt, Wolf Heidenheim (1757-1832) acquired a reputation as a most diligent and punctilious Hebrew grammarian, and Masoretic scholar, as well as being among the finest of Hebrew printers. An exceptionally attractive copy.