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Rare! First Time in Auctions: Chumash Tikkun Sofrim with Devek Tov and Sefer Hachinuch - Amsterdam, 1767. Copy of Rabbi Akiva Eiger's Disciple - Chumash Tikkun Sofrim, with the Onkelos translation and Rashi's commentary, sefer Devek Tov by Rabbi Shimon Ashenburg of Frankfurt, Sefer Hachinuch with glosses by Rabbi Yehuda Rosanis author of Mishneh Lamelech and Parashat Derachim and more. Sefer Hachinuch was printed here for the first time and ever since in most following editions ”after Seder Hapsukim” rather than in the order defined by the author (עשין לבד ולאוין לבד). The Press of the Proops Brothers in Amsterdam - 1767. [2], 341, [1], 29 leaves.  A variant differing from the copy of the National Library: on verso of the title page ”Klalim in Rashi's words” were not printed on verso of the title page. 4 leaves of the foreword are missing and there is no separate title page for the section of Vayikra, Bamidbar and Devarim. All five Chumshei Torah appear consecutively and the 29 leaves of the Haftarot were bound together at the end. Taping to 2 leaves and small tears along the edges of some leaves. In some additional leaves, the headings and notation of ”Kri” on the margins of the leaves were cut. Stains and minor blemishes. Old contemporary binding with taping to spine - partly detached. Good overall condition. A rare book which has never been auctioned.  Ex-libris of Avraham Abba ben Rabbi Elazar Bronstein. English ownership signatures and a handwritten notation:  ”תורה היא עץ חיים... הק' מרדכי שמואל בה”ר ישראל גאללאנץ חזן ראשון ונאמן דבה”כ [=בבית הכנסת] האמברא בלאנדאן”. Rabbi Mordechai Shmuel Galantz (d. 1900) Rav of London. On his tombstone it was written that he was a disciple of Rabbi Akiva Eiger and of the author of the Tiferet Yisrael. Served as Rav of Bromberg and Breman, from where he wrote to Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Natan Adler, and was accepted as Rav and Shatz of the Hambro' synagogue of London. His sons were Rabbi Chaim (known as Dr. Hermman) who published the book Mafte'ach Shlomo and more and Sir Yisrael Galantz (Sofrei Hamelech - London 2013 p. 203). .