Sefer Netivot HaShalom, the Five Books of Moses with scribal corrections, German translation and commentary [by Moses Mendelssohn, Solomon Dubno, Hartwig Wessely, Herz Homberg and Aaron Friedenthal]. Berlin: George Friedrich Starcke, 1783. Hebrew and German in Hebrew characters.

A rare copy of the first edition of Mendelssohn's Bi'ur – the Pentateuch, translated into German and presented with a new commentary, seen as the stellar achievement of the Haskalah movement.
The work was composed by a group of scholars, headed by Mendelssohn, over ten years, between 1773 and 1783, and was fiercely opposed by the rabbinic leadership, who went as far as trying to prevent its printing. To finance the enterprise, estimated at 3,500 thalers, Mendelssohn and his partners assembled a group of subscribers from all over Europe who jointly funded the publishing of the 750 copies comprising the first edition.
The present first edition copy consists of five volumes, each book of the Pentateuch bound separately; Genesis and Exodus each with a separate title page. Genesis volume bound with Mendelssohn's introductory work "Or LiNetivah"; Rabbinical endorsements; and "Mahalal Re'a", Hartwig Wessely's introductory poem. Lacking engraved title page, two additional title pages from the Genesis volume and a two-page introduction by Solomon Dubno.
All five volumes with inscriptions on flyleaves, dedicating the books to the owner's grandson: "A gift… to my grandson Michl son of Hirsch… Amsterdam, Kislev 1815, Gotschlich” (with minor variations between volumes).

Genesis: [1], [23], 6; [1], 299 ff. (lacking ff. 7-8 of first pagination sequence – introduction by Solomon Dubno, two title pages and the engraved title page bound into some of the copies). Exodus: [1], 204 ff. Leviticus: [2], 218 ff. Numbers: 144 ff. Deuteronomy: 125, [1] ff., approx. 20 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Worming (mostly to margins), minimally affecting text. Some pages partly detached. Original covers, worn and partly detached, with closed and open tears to spines.