Amsterdam: Yaccov Proops, [1781]. Third edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [2] 52 double-sided leaves. Rebacked in modern brown leather spine over original period brown leather boards. Gilt lettering and ruling on the spine. Modern endpapers. Profusely illustrated throughout with copperplate engravings. Includes both an initial illustrated title page with copperplate engravings surrounding..... More

Nowydwok: Anton Kriger, 1787. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 58 leaves. Half leather over marbled paper covered boards (marble rubbed off at one of the boards, see below). Lacking Title page. Work by renowned German Talmudist and Rabbi Aryeh Löb Ben Hayyim Kats a.k.a. Breslau. [his last name is often given..... More

New York: Published by Sepher-Hermon Press, Inc. for The Alumni Association of the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest, 1986. Hardcover. 8vo. xiii,334,[50],pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Very slight staining on binding. Frontispiece. "On October 4, 1877 a historic event in the annals of Hungarian Jewry took..... More

Jerusalem: Rubin Mass, 1983. Second revised. Hardcover. Large 4to. 71pp. (1). Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed green dust jacket. Frontispiece photographs of a ketubbah document. A guide to buying Jewish antiques. Chapters are divided according to ritual objects and geographic regions. An earlier edition of..... More

New York: Arno Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxii, 252pp. Plus (16)pp. of plates. Light pink Holy Land map dust jacket lettered in red, over brown leatherette boards lettered in black. Included at rear is a list of almost 1,000 biblical place names in America. A presentation copy inscribed..... More

Lancaster, California: Labyrinthos, 2007. Softcover. 8vo. xxxix,256pp. Original illustrated wraps. Photographic frontispiece of Henry J. Leir. This epic poem by Antonio Enriques Gómez is based on the Biblical story of Samson. "In his prologue to "Samson Nazareno," Gómez clearly insinuates why at this time in his Converso situation he chooses..... More

Culver City, CA: Labyrinthos, 1990. Deluxe Limited Edition. Hardcover. 1/200, unnumbered. 4to. XXI, [1], 215 pp. on acid-free paper. Original green smyth-sewn clothbound with gold illustration on front cover and silver lettering on spine housed in matching slipcase. Fourth volume in the "Sephardic Classical Library" series. Lazar's edition of Kuzari..... More

Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 236pp. (English and French text) + 186pp. (Hebrew text). Blue dust jacket with blue and white lettering on the front covers and spine. Light blue buckram boards with gilt lettering on the spine. A collection of 23 essays devoted to the..... More

Lancaster, Ca: Labyrinthos, 2002. Revised Version. Softcover. Small Quarto. 573 pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Revised edition of Moshe Idel's "The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia" (trans. by J. Chipman) and "Language, Torah, and Hermeneutics in Abraham Abulafia" (trans. by M. Kallus) by Moshe Lazar: "I have preserved the integrity of..... More

Jerusalem: Jerusale Post Press, n/d. Softcover. 8vo. 36 pp. White wrappers with facsimile of a Gush Emunim gathering on front cover. Some yellowing to pages, but text is unaffected. Book is in very good condition. "No one in Israel is neutral about Gush Emunim. The movement, composed largely of younger..... More