Obj. ID: 35337  Tanach, Amsterdam, 1705

The following description was prepared by William Gross:

This book is quite unusual in that on the rear of the title page appears the signature of the publisher to prevent unauthorized copies from being made. There are several books in the Gross Family Collection with such signatures, but the phenomenon is not widespread. This book was printed by Immanuel Athias, whose signature appears.
This volume is part three of the four-volume Chumash printed by Immanues Athias. The book contains illustrations that are the same as some of those printed in the first Latin translation of the Talmud, issued in six large volumes starting in 1898 in Amsterdam.
Immanuel Athias took over the Hebrew section of his father, Joseph's, press in 1685. Although the father is more renowned, especially for his Bible editions, it was Immanuel who was responsible for the family's high repute in the world of Hebrew books. His four-volume edition of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (1702), of which 1,150 copies were printed, was described by M. Steinschneider as "one of the most elegant and beautiful Hebrew editions to have ever appeared." His last issue was a Sephardic rite prayer book (1709). Much of Athias' printing material, which was highly regarded, became the property of the Proops family in 1761.