Bidspirit auction | Wide margined Set of Chumash

Wide margined Set of Chumash Tikkun Sofrim with Commentary Totza'ot Chaim - Vienna 1794 * Antique Signatures - Chumash ”Totza'ot Chaim” – Vienna 1794. – Complete set in original leather bindings. Sefer Chamisha Chumashim Torah, with Targumim, Rashi's commentary, Rashbam, Ibn Ezra and Baal HaTurim, ethical admonitions of the Shelah, commentary Totza'ot Chaim, and with Haftarot and Five Megillot. Vienna, Anton Schmid Press, 1794. Five volumes. The commentary 'Totza'ot Chaim' by Rabbi Chaim of Boskovice, integrated with ethical admonitions derivable from the verses of the Torah, as well as from the commentaries of the Shelah. It includes interpretations he heard himself from the rabbi of our community, the famous Gaon Rabbi Shaul, Av Beis Din of Amsterdam. The commentary Totza'ot Chaim is cited in Chassidic books such as the Holy Rabbi of Lublin ZY”A, and in the books of Yismach Moshe and others. Complete set with original leather bindings, printed in large format on high-quality paper, with wide margins. Some words on the title pages and introductions are printed in red ink. At the beginning of the Bereshit volume, a ”Kol Koreh” (call to action) by the editor of the edition, Meir Abronik, appears, writing about the importance of printing beautiful books and praising Anton Schmid's printing house. At the end of the Devarim volume, a ”Davar El HaKoreh” (word to the reader) by editor Abronik appears, where his role as the person responsible for printing in Schmid's Hebrew book printing house is mentioned alongside his name. On the volumes are ownership inscriptions: HaKadosh Gershon Eichhorn Ir Chadash(=Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Slovakia).