Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1999). Reprint. Softcover. Sm. quarto. xxiv,454pp. Original illustrated wraps. Comprehensive survey looking at more than a thousand years of religious life at Rome, covering the foundation of the city to its rise to world empire and its conversion to Christianity. Illustrated with b/w photographic reproductions. Minor..... More
Paris; Louvain: Peeters, 2009. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 502pp. Original printed wraps with printer's device on front cover and title-page. This volume collects essays on polytheistic and monotheistic realities in antiquity for studying the subject of "religious identities" - the perception of the self or others as singular based on..... More
Geneva: Jean de Laon, 1580. First edition. Hardcover. Three volumes, octavo.Vol. I: π2, **3, ***4, π3-4, (blank π4) **6, a-3k8 3l4 (blank 3l4) 3m8 3n4 (= 476 leaves). [24], 901, [27]pp. Vol. II: A8 2A-3F8 3G2 3H8 3I3 [blank 3I2 and 3I3] (= 437 leaves). [16], 836, [22, index]pp. Vol..... More
New York: American Jewish Archives and KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 1974. First English language edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XII, 258pp. Original full cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. First English language edition of this rare work written in French in 1788. It is a fascinating account on the..... More
Leuven: Peeters, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (12" x 8-1/2"). xii, 419, (3)pp. Red cloth lettered in gilt. Illustrated throughout with statistical diagrams, photos and maps (1, in color). An ex-library copy with minimal rubber stamps on title page & at bottom of text block, otherwise fine. In this work..... More
Lemberg: David Zevi Schrenzel, 1858. Hardcover. 8vo. 103 pages. Quarter leather over black paper covered boards, tooled with a beautiful ornate floral pattern. Age wear on biding, heavy age wear on spine, bottom part of backstrip missing. Simon Duran's (1361-1444) commentary on 613 commandments based on Solomon ibn Gabirol's (1020-1057)..... More
New York: Cultural Department of the World Jewish Congress and the Torah Culture Department of the Jewish Agency, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 73pp. in English + 157pp. in Hebrew. Blue cloth with gold lettering on front and rear covers and spine in original printed decorative dust jacket. Signed by..... More
London & Bournemouth: The Soncino Press, 1951. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-3/4"). 10 volumes. Original blue buckram with gilt publisher's device on cover and gilt lettering on spines. Gilt top edges. Collection of classical Rabbinic literature and commentary organized around the layout of the bible. The Midrash can..... More
Philadelphia: The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. vii,189pp. brown cloth. Age wear and some water staining on binding. Hinges starting. Thesis by Simon Ginzburg for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, on the founder..... More
Des Moines, Iowa: Koch Brothers Printing Co., 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XVI, 359pp. Original cloth with black lettering on front board and spine. Fascinating account of the history of the Jewish settlers, farmers, shop owners of Iowa. Ex-library copy. Library stamp on title-page, and blind stamp on dedication page..... More
Philadelphia: Bicking & Guilbert, 1855. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 43, [1, blank]pp; 2 maps (1 folding). Contemporary blue title wrappers (lightly chipped at extremities), lettered in black. Stain, limited to top margin, throughout latter half, else a very good copy, text clean and crisp. First edition of this rare Brief..... More
New York: Behrman's Jewish Book House, 1940. Hardcover. Inscribed. 8vo. 117pp. Original brown cloth with blue lettering on cover and spine. Author's inscription on front free endpaper. Head and tail of spine bumped. Overall in good condition. More
Frankfurt: Buchdruckerei David Droller, 1935. First edition. Softcover. Inscribed by author to Mr. Julius Jung on front free endpaper. Octavo. xx, 80pp. Original printed blue wraps. Elaborate treatise on religious crimes according to Jewish Criminal Law. The treatise with emphasis on Judaism is divided into two parts: (a) the fundamentals..... More
Amsterdam; Dordrecht; Leyden; Harlingen: J. de Groot; G. Warnars; P. den Hengst; A. and P. Blusse; S. and J. Luchtmans; V. van der Plaats, 1791. Second edition. Hardcover. Folio (17 1/2 x 11"). XII, 129, [1]pp (Text), [125] leaves (Plates). Contemporary 3/4 calf over illustrated paper cover boards, with gold..... More
New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 307,(1)pp. Index. Black leather spine over blind stamped, ribbed dark blue cloth. Small photo inset on front cover. Illustrated with over 130 color plates based on the artists work from 1984 to 2006. A fine, as new..... More
Nuremberg: J. Bulka, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 816pp. (2), 85pp. (1). Quarter brown cloth over brown paper boards with black lettering and design on spine. Top edge red. Hebrew and German title-pages. Machsor Vitry by R. Simcha of Vitry, a student of the 11th century Jewish scholar R. Shlomo..... More
Rotterdam: W. L. en J. Brusse's Uitgeversmaatschappij N.V., 1931. Softcover. 8vo. 75pp. Original wrappers designed by Piet Zwart. Inside edges of front wrapper have been repaired with clear tape. Backstrip missing. Abrasions and creasing on front wrapper. "No. 5 van de serie monografieen over filmkunst onder redactie van C. J...... More
Baltimore: Simon Kuznets, 1956. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 140pp. Gray half cloth wraps with mimeographed block. Preliminary draft of a paper prepared at the request of Professor Louis Finkelstein, Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, for possible inclusion in a new edition of a two volume reference work "The Jews,"..... More
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Krotoschin [Krotoszyn]/ Vienna/ Frankfurt am Main: Printed by B.L. Monasch/ Jacob Schlossberg's Buchhandlung/ Printed by Ferdinand Hauch, 1839/1864/1838. First German translations. Hardcover. Octavo. 3/4 black morocco over buckram boards. Gilt lettering and ruling on the spine. Red speckled edges of book block. A complete set of the three parts of..... More
La Haye [Paris]: Adrian Moetjens, 1682. Third French edition. Hardcover. Sextodecimo (5 1/2 x 3 1/2"). (48) 188 (4), 166, 12pp. Original full vellum with gilt lettering and ruling on brown leather label on the spine. Additional engraved title page. Publisher's device on title page. Decorative head and tailpieces. Decorative..... More
Amsterdam: Daniel van den Dalen, 1700. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. (64) 198 (8)pp., 4 folding copperplate engravings; 203 (3)pp. Contemporary vellum with blind-stamped vignettes and staggered borders on covers. Red edges. Frontispiece, dated 1693 with publisher's reference below engraving. Publisher's devices on title pages. Decorative headpiece and initials. Contains printed..... More
London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. ix, 109pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Frontispiece. S. Nowell-Smith covers International Copyright Law from 1837-1901 during the reign of Queen Victoria. Some age wear, staining and sunning on dj. Dust jacket..... More
London: Ararat Publishing Society, Ltd., 1961. Second enlarged edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 238 pp. Introduction with Arabic numerals as pagination + 524 pp. of text with Hebrew pagination and index. Blue cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Nachman Krochmal was an important figure in the Eastern European Haskalah..... More
Chicago: The College of Jewish Studies, 1950. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 24pp. Original printed wrappers. Remarkable being an address delivered by Simon Rawidowicz, professor of Jewish Philosophy and Chairman of the Graduate Department, at the opening convocation of The College of Jewish Studies in September 1948. Wrappers slightly darkened. Wraps..... More
Chicago: The College of Jewish Studies, 1952. Hardcover. Large 8vo. English section 197 pp. Hebrew section 120pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on front and rear covers and spine. Collection of articles relating to Jewish life in Chicago. Bibliographical information on Chicago, as well as numerous tables on the..... More