Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XII, [2], 110pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Publisher's logo on front board and title page. Devotion to the study of the Babylonian Talmud, a document of law and theology completed in the seventh century..... More
Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2003. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/25. Oblong quarto (11 1/4 x 13"). 165, [3]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over blue cloth, with white lettering to spine and front cover. Printed sticker on front free endpaper hand-numbered and signed by the artist. Title page signed by Walter Niedermayr as..... More
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1996. First American edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 335, [1]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over gilt-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. This remarkable work explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which Jewish identity was conceived and expressed in modern European and American culture. Minor..... More
Nendeln (Liechtenstein): Kraus Reprint Limited, 1967. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. LVI, 443, [1]pp. Original blue cloth, with gold lettering and blind ruling on spine. Frontispiece. This remarkable volume is a collection of translated Spanish official documents, depositions by prisoners, documents relating to Nuño da Silva, etc., pertaining to Sir Francis Drake's..... More
London: De La More Press, 1905-1906-1907-1910. Limited edition. 1/320. Folio (12 x 9"). [10], ii, 246pp (Vol. 1); [6], ii, [2], 330pp (Vol. 2); [6], i, [3], 234, [2]pp (Vol. 3); [2], ix, [1], 339, [1]pp. (Vol. 4). Uncut. Contemporary full red, green and gilt stamped morocco, with gold lettering..... More
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Turnholti (Turnhout, Belgium): Brepols Editores Pontificii, 1968. Later edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XVIII, 179, [1]pp. Original gilt-stamped red cloth, with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Originally composed between 1139 and 1141 by Peter the Venerable*, "Contra Petrobrusianos hereticos" is a fierce attack against the Petrobrusians, heretics of the twelfth..... More
Cooperstown, NY: H. & E. Phinney, 1842. Later edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (11 1/4 x 9 1/4"). [2], 576pp (Old Testament), [4]pp (Family section), 99, [1]pp (the Apocrypha), [577]-767, [1]pp (New Testament, Index and Tables). Original brown morocco embossed with geometric and stylized foliate designs in typical Phinney style; spine..... More
Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1989. Third revised. Hardcover. Large quarto (11 x 8 3/4"). 766pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over grey cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. "Sir Charles Jackson's "English Goldsmiths and Their Marks" has long been the classic reference book on British antique silver hallmarks. First published..... More
[Los Angeles]: [Westernlore Press], [1959]. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 1/4 x 9 1/4"). VIII, 120pp. Original blind-stamped buckram with gold lettering to spine and front cover.Folding map frontispiece. "Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley" is one of the most important publications devoted to the Mormon emigration, and..... More
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1889. New and Revised edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4"). XXIV, [2], 713, [1]pp. Contemporary full calf school binding, with gold lettering and tooling to spine, and seal of the Bedford School in gilt on front cover. Raised bands. Blind-stamped dentelles. Marbled..... More
Madison: The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, Ltd, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. LXVI, [8], 470pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine, and printer's device in gilt on front board. Printer's device on title page. Annotated study of a 15th century Spanish-Jewish Bible located..... More
London: M. A. Nattali, 1833. Later edition. Hardcover. Folio (13 x 10 1/2"). VIII, 64pp (Engraved title & text), 4pp (List of Plates); [79] leaves (Plates). Contemporary gilt-stamped morocco, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Binding signed by T. Aitken. Tipped..... More
London: Printed by J. Hughs for J. Brindley and C. Corbett, 1737. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo (6 1/2 x 4"). Volume I: [i]-xxii + iii-viii + [i]-cxxxiv-[135]-384pp. The second pagination (iii-viii) is the table of contents of Volume II. Copper engraved frontispiece portrait of Rabelais and two fold-out copper engravings..... More
Philadelphia: Department of Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 1/2 x 9"). xv, [1], 174, [2]pp (Text), 68, xii leaves (Plates). Modern olive cloth, with gold lettering to spine. All the tablets here published were excavated in Nippur during the second to fourth expeditions of the..... More
Philadelphia: Department of Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 1/2 x 9"). viii, [2], 79, [13]pp (Text), 71, xiii leaves (Plates); [2]pp (Corrections). Modern olive cloth, with gold lettering to spine. The legal and business documents of the first dynasty of Babylon are well represented in the..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1946. Hardcover. Quarto. Vol. 1: clxxiii, 522pp. Frontispiece. Foldout map at rear. Vol. 2: vii, 853pp. Facsimile frontispiece foldout of letter at front, foldout map at rear. Vol. 3: vii, 695pp. Facsimile frontispiece foldout of letter at front, foldout map at rear. Vol. 4: x, 586..... More
Hanover; London: University Press of New England, 1985. Second printing. Softcover. Quarto. XII, [4], 362pp. Original photographic wrappers. Based on papers delivered at an international historical conference at Clark University, these essays explore the unique symbiosis between Jews and German culture, examining such themes as the tension between emancipation and..... More
Amsterdam: Van Munster's Uitgeversmaatschappij, ND (ca 1925-1928). First edition. Softcover. Octavo (8 3/4 x 6 1/4"). [4], 58, [2]pp (Vol. 1); [6], 40, [4]pp (Text), [26]pp (Plates) (Vol. 2); [6], 36, [6]pp (Text), [24]pp (Plates) (Vol. 3); [6], 35, [9]pp (Text), [36]pp (Plates) (Vol. 4); [6], 28, [10]pp (Text), [28]pp..... More
Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. LVI, 341, [1]pp. Original gilt-, and blind-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece. In 1794, Charles Bishop sailed from Bristol as master of the Ruby, a trading ship bound for north-west America. He..... More
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Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1895-1898. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 1/250. Quarto. XVII, [1], 358pp; XI, [1], 342pp; VIII, [2], 367, [1]pp; [8], 358pp; [6], 319, [1]pp; [10], 302pp; VIII, [2], 334pp; XII, 326pp; [8], 345, [1]pp; [8], 316pp; [8], 309, [1]pp; [6], 328pp. Uncut. Original 3/4 navy blue morocco over marbled..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1971. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original printed dust-jacket over blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. First volume of one of the foremost surveys of Aristotle's life, work and philosophy. Spine and edges of dust-jacket slightly sunned. Sporadic annotations and underlining in pen and pencil throughout..... More
New York: National Conference on Soviet Jewry, 1972. First edition. Paperback. Large octavo. [2], 34, [2]pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Commemorative book with poetry, writings and illustrations by and about the August 13th victims of The Night of the Murdered Poets. The Night of the Murdered Poets was an execution of..... More
Le Caire: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1905 (Vol. 1); 1923 (Vol. 2). First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (11 1/2 x 7 1/2"). [8], ii, cxvi, 264, [2]pp (Vol. 1); [4], xl, 277, [3]pp (Vol. 2). Modern full burgundy cloth, with gold lettering to spines. Frontispiece portrait of Silvestre de Sacy in..... More
New York: Léon Amiel, 1975. Second edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 3/4 x 10"). 136pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over beige cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Photo-illustrated title page. This special issue of the art magazine "XXe siècle" is entirely devoted to Russian painter and art theorist Wassily..... More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XX, [2], 289, [1]pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Publisher's logo on front board and title page. In this volume, the author analyzes Tractate Demai ("Doubtfully Tithed Produce") in Mishnah and Tosefta, the earliest extant..... More