London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1874. First English language edition. Hardcover. Folio. xviii, (1) 378pp. Original three-quarter red Morocco over textured rose cloth with gilt ruling on covers and spine, here with decorative tooling; raised bands. Gilt top edge. Beautifully decorative endpapers in color. Title page printed in red and..... More
Minneapolis & Chicago: Bibliotheca Islamica, (1978). Softcover. 8vo. xxxix, 198pp. Illustrated wrappers. Collection of short stories by renowned Egyptian writer Yusuf Idris (1927 - 1991), who is considered a master of the short story. His stories were often very realistic and dealt with ordinary and poor people. Idris, who wrote..... More
London: SPCK, 1964. Second English edition. Hardcover. Sm. octavo. xi,132pp. Dark brown cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. "...a book which the student of the New Testament will value for its scholarship and insight, and which will give the ordinary reader some idea of the..... More
Amsterdam: Gerard onder de Linden, 1726, 1727. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Folio. Continuous pagination. [24] 1940 (the last seven pages of vol. 1 are numbered 658+1 until 658+7). Contemporary leather with embossed gilt decoration, title plate ["Flavius Josephus "]. Raised bands. Title in first volume in black and red lettering, in..... More
Budapest: Nova Irodalmi Intézet, 1947. First Hungarian edition. Hardcover. 1/100, out of series. Octavo. iii (i), 310, (2) 294 (1)pp. Original red quarter cloth over textured gray paper with gilt-stamped title on cover and spine, in original illustrated dustjackets. Black endpapers. With portrait drawing of Joyce reproduced for introduction. First..... More
Boston: New England Water Works Association, 1973. Hardcover. 8vo. v. 252pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering to cover and spine. Head and tail of spine bumped and rubbed. Corners worn. Scuffing, staining and rubbing to boards. Signed to inside of front board by owner. Great primary source on the water..... More
Tehran: H. Sadeghi / H. Amir-Khani et al, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 1/6000. lix, 110 plates + paintings and Arabic text. Original off-white cloth with blind-stamped lettering on cover in illustrated dustjacket, brown lettering on spine, in matching illustrated paper-covered boards slipcase. Illustrated endpapers. Translated into English and French, with..... More
Beacon Hill: Starr King Press, (1957). First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvii, 226pp. Tan cloth with black lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Captivating study of the role of the religious and social radicals in the Polish Reformation. Red stain on front cover. Parts of bottom edge on..... More
Madrid: Editorial Gred, 1974. Softcover. Ex-libris. Large 8vo. 490pp. 49pp. Original paper wrappers with black and red lettering to cover and spine. Translation of the great Sephardic Bible commentary "Me'Am Lo'Ez" ["from a foreign people"], written by Rabbi Ya'acov Culi (d. 1739). It is remarkable for two reasons: 1) The use..... More
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1952. Revised, with translation and notes. Hardcover. 8vo. xxxv, 362pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on cover and spine in original price-clipped dust jacket. Lancisi's 1728 work was a milestone in the history of cardiology. This was the first complete translation of the work into..... More
London: H. D. Symonds, 1797. Later edition. Hardcover. Complete in four volumes. 8vo. xv, 243pp. iv, 186pp. [4], 188-355, (255-288pp. mispaginated but complete). xiv, 334pp. Bound in modern full calf deluxe binding with finely gold-tooled spine, red and olive title-labels with gold lettering. Top-edge gilt. Raised bands. Dentelles. Modern endpapers..... More
Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, (1979). Second edition (Facsimile reprint of the first 1929 German edition). Hardcover. Octavo. xi,[1],261,[1]pp. Decorative yellow cloth with black lettering in original dust jacket. Le Corbusier's authoritative work was first published in 1925 in France under the title "Urbanisme." Profusely illustrated with 218 b/w reproductions of photographs..... More
Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1929. First German language edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xi,[1],261,[3]pp. Decorative black cloth with yellow lettering on cover and spine. Le Corbusier's authoritative work on urban planning / architecture was first published in 1925 in France under the title "Urbanisme." In three parts: Allgemeine Auseinandersetzung / Eine Laboratoriumsarbeit, eine..... More
Venezia: Antonio Bortoli, 1767, 1770. Los Rios, R. de. Sixth edition (vols. 1-7). Hardcover. 12mo. 8 vols. 384pp. 312pp. 357pp. 360pp. 360pp. 228pp.214pp. 420pp. Contemporary leather with title plate and gilt embossed ornaments to spines. Raised bands. Minor surface hairline cracks to spines. Red page edges. Head and tail of..... More
![Item #23628 Song of Peace [SIGNED]. Walter Lowenfels, Anton Refregier, transl., illustr](/pictures/thumb/23628.jpg?v=1515178748)
New York City: Roving Eye Press, (1959). Limited edition. Hardcover. 1 of 125 numbered copies of a limited edition of 1000 printed in Vogue type. Folio. [8],10,26pp. Tan cloth with illustrated paste-down on front and back cover. Signed by W. Lowenfels and A. Refregier on half-title page. Inscribed by previous..... More
London: Hillway Publishing, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. ix,277pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on spine in original price-clipped dust jacket. Lukács study of problems such as the relation of form and content, the nature of realism and its relationship to naturalism and romanticism, the relationship of the particular and..... More
![Item #43768 Die Tragödie des Menschen (The Tragedy of Man) [INSCRIBED]. Imre Madách,...](/pictures/thumb/43768.jpg?v=1546561200)
Budapest, Leipzig: Dr. Georg Vajna & Co., 1933. First German Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Mohácsi on half title. 54/100 numbered by hand. Octavo. 207 (1)pp. Rebound in three quarter Morocco over decorative paper retaining original cover bound in; spine with gilt tooling and lettering, raised bands. Decorative endpapers. "The Tragedy of..... More
New York: Fordham University Press, (1967). First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xiii, 177pp. Red cloth with gold lettering and printer's device on spine in original printed dust jacket. Without attempting to rewrite the history of the Albigensian crusade (Cathar Crusade) or the Inquisition, Madaule seeks to place this tragic episode..... More
Jerusalem: Mossad Ha-Rav Kook, 1959/60. Ex-Library. Hardcover. 3 volumes. Quarto. Continuous pagination of the first two volumes. lxxxviii. 524 (89)pp. Beige greenish cloth with black lettering to covers and spines. The Guide of the Perplexed is Maimonides' best known work. This specific edition was edited by Yehuda Kauffmann [Even Shemuel]..... More
![Item #14102 Halakhot Parah aduma [Hilkhot parah adumah] = R. Mosis Maimonidis Tractatus de vacca...](/pictures/thumb/14102.jpg?v=1434441321)
Amsterdam: Christian Petzold, 1711. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 5pp. (12). 544pp. 3/4 vellum over decorated paper-covered boards with brown handwritten lettering to spine. Scuffing, abrasions and discoloration to boards and spine. All maroon page edges. 2 Ex libris- plates pasted-in on front endpaper: 1) Ex libris Rev. Joseph Jaquett. Presented..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1970). First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xv,403pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dust jacket. Originally published in 1963 in Germany under the title "Weltbürgertum und Nationalstaat", F. Meinecke presents his brilliant analysis of the origins and development of the idea of the..... More
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1894. Hardcover. 3 volumes. 8vo. xvi,421pp. 483,[1]pp. 541,[4]pp. Three-quarter gold-lined leather over green cloth with gold decorated spine. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Ex-libris of Harry B. Koch on inside of front board. Frontispiece in all 3 volumes. Frontispiece portraits of Emperor Napoleon I...... More
Paris: Librairie Ernes Leroux, 1929. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. xi, 417 (1)pp., 70 plates. Original beige stiff wraps with black lettering and publisher's device on cover and spine, protected by modern mylar. Works of the highly regarded playwright. Tchikamatsou reinvented the banal puppet theater to become a pseudo-epic style: Ningyo-Joruri..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. cxxxiv. 658pp. Beige cloth with red title on front cover (Arabic, written in Hebrew letters). Maroon title plate with gilt lettering (in English). "This monument of rabbinical exegesis, written at the end of the twelfth century, has exerted an immense..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964. Second Impression. Hardcover. Octavo. cxxxiv, 658pp. Original dustjacket over beige cloth with red title (in Hebrew) on front cover and gilt lettering on red label of spine. "This monument of rabbinical exegesis, written at the end of the twelfth century, has exerted an immense..... More