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Sefer Hanosein Imrei Shefer, homilies on the Torah by R. Eliyahu ben Chaim. Frankfurt-am-Main, [1713]. Second edition. Signatures on the title page: "G-d gave me this volume, the small Yaakov Moshe son of the great R. Shaul" in handsome Rashi script. A further inscription in the handwriting of R. Yaakov Moshe Levenstam reads "Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet". Another signature reads "Aryeh Leib", and another "R. Yaakov Ab". R. Yaakov Moshe Levenstam, (1744-1815) succeeded his father R. Shaul (1717-1790) as rabbi of Amsterdam in 1793. He was married to his cousin, daughter of his uncle R. Tzvi Hirsch, rabbi of Berlin (1721-1800). Before his appointment as rabbi of Amsterdam, he served as rabbi in Wielen, Rhineland, Germany. The signature "Aryeh Leib" may possibly be that of his younger brother, R. Aryeh Leib Levenstam, son-in-law of R. Yaakov Emden (the Yaavetz). R. Aryeh Leib passed away at a young age in 1782 in the home of his uncle, R. Shaul Halevi, rabbi of The Hague. [The possibility also exists that this is the signature of his grandfather R. Aryeh Leib, (died 1756) rabbi of Lviv and Amsterdam, son-in-law of the Chacham Tzvi.] The top of the title page contains an additional signature from 1747 of "Shimon Mannheim", and a trimmed inscription from Nimwegen (Nijmegen), Holland [this would seem to be the signature of R. Shimon Mannheim, rabbi of Nijmegen from 1764, son-in-law (or possibly son-in-law of the son of) R. Moshe Frankfurt of Amsterdam]. [1], 103, [2] leaves. 31.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Wear to the corners of the first pages with slight damage to text. Stains and wear. Non-original binding; worn.