Signature of Rabbi Chaim Sofer, author of 'Machaneh Chaim' on Sefer 'Yalkut Chadash.'

Signature of Rabbi Chaim Sofer, author of 'Machaneh Chaim' on Sefer 'Yalkut Chadash.'
The handwritten signature of Rabbi Chaim Sofer on Sefer Yalkut Chadash of Rabbi Yisrael of Belzec. Pressburg, 1858.
On the page before the title page is the handwritten signature of his youngest son who served him for many years, Rabbi Akiva Yechezkel Sofer (see about him in the book Toldot Sofrim page 161). It seems that several lines on the page before the title page are also in his handwriting.
Rabbi Chaim Sofer, av"d of Mukachevo and Budapest (1822-1886), author of responsa Machaneh Chaim, one of the greatest students of the Chatam Sofer, and one of the leaders of Hungarian Jewry in his generation, a genius and righteous man, a resolute fighter against the followers of the Enlightenment, and one of the most important responders to halachic questions of his time. He was born in Pressburg and circumcised on Yom Kippur by his Rabbi, the Chatam Sofer. At the age of 11 he entered the Chatam Sofer's yeshiva, and they stayed close until his death.
 
Old semi-leather cover. Very fine condition.