PARIS - POPE'S JEWS Pentateuch with the haphtarot, by Isaac de Valabrègue, Paris, Sétier, 1808. Volume two of two, original full basane binding, Empire-style fillets and fleurons, interior lace. Some foxing. First Parisian edition of the Hebrew text of the Bible ordered for Jewish liturgical use. This highly polished edition, printed in elegant type, was produced by the circle of Comtadin and Portuguese Jews who settled in Paris at the end of the Ancien Régime and were active in Hebrew publishing at the beginning of the Empire, around Louis-Pascal Sétier, printer for the Consistoire israélite.