Five Books of the Torah and the Five Scrolls with Targum Onkelos (only for the Pentateuch), Rashi commentary, and the Haftarah portions. Amsterdam: Press of Shlomo Ben Yosef Proops, [1734]. In decorated silver binding.
Silver, pierced, repoussé, engraved, and soldered (unmarked); print on paper; leather.
This Chumash is bound in a reddish leather binding dating from the time of the printing of the volume, superimposed with a magnificent silver binding, pierced with various symmetrical, matching floral and other rich vegetal patterns on the front and rear, as well as on the spine. The piercing exposes the leather underneath. Silver binding includes a pair of decorated silver buckles.

Chumash: 2-491 leaves (title page missing); 56 leaves, 12.5 cm. Separate title page for the haftarot. Wear and tears on first and last leaves. Open tears to final leaf. Inked stamps of Russian censor. Gilt edges, with gauffered patterns on edges of book block.
Silver binding: 13.8 cm. Early ownership notation (Hebrew) on front flyleaf: “Avigdor Kieffer”. Paper label (English print form, filled in with handwritten script) bearing the name of Solomon Schloss, from the exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1906, pasted to inside front cover.

Exhibitions:
1. London, Exhibition of Jewish Art and Antiquities, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1906, item no. 1100.
2. Basel, Jewish Museum of Switzerland, JMS 1011.
Provenance:
1. Collection of Solomon David Schloss (1815-1911).
2. Lewis Raphael Castle (1858-1932), son of the above.
3. Peter Castle (1922-2011), grandson of the above.
4. Heirs of the above.
This item appears in the inventory list of the Schloss Collection, dated 1923 (see appendix, pp. 146-148), and is documented in a 1931 collection photograph (see p. 11).