London: John Murray, 1862. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 x 6"). xiv, [2], 391, [1]pp, 12pp (Publisher's catalogue). Original gilt- and blind-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Rebacked. Engraved frontispiece. Engraved illustration to title page. British traveller and amateur excavator, Nathan Davis (1812-1882) is mostly known for his..... More
Jerusalem: Department of Antiquities and Museums - Ministry of Education and Culture - The Department of Archeology, Hebrew University - The Israel Exploration Society. 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [8], 171pp (text), XXVIIIpp of plates. Original tan cloth with brown lettering on front board and spine. Printer's device on title-page..... More
Leiden: Brill, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv, 323, (3)pp. Index and selected bibliographies. Dark over light purple boards, spine lettered in white. A fine, as new copy This volume brings together several of Prof. S.N. Eisenstadt's essays written over the years on Jewish history and identity. The major argument..... More
New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XIX, [1], 524pp. Original decorative wrappers over cloth with gold lettering on spine. Top edge green. A pathbreaking work by Eisenstadt is this comprehensive study of "The Political Systems of Empires", which at once ensured him world renown..... More
Berlin: Mayer & Müller, 1915. Hardcover. 8vo. vi. 160pp. 1/4 green cloth over marbled paper covered boards. Work on the 9th century commentary on the Talmudic Tractate of Tohorot. The author inquires whether R. Hai Gaon really was the author of the commentary. age wear to binding. Foxing, browning and..... More
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, (1967). Softcover. 4to. x,194pp. Original wrappers. Wraps slightly sunned. Minor rubbing to parts of edges and along spine. "The Basic Course follows the audio-lingual approach in teaching the phonology, basic structure, and useful vocabulary of the speech of the educated native of Sulaimania..... More
New York: Orion Press, 1962. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Large square octavo. (xix) [3] 362pp. Photo-illustrated tan dust jacket, with red lettering on the front cover and spine. Illustrated orange cloth boards in black with black lettering on the spine. A fine copy of the first edition of this..... More
Jerusalem: The Encyclopaedia of the Jewish Diaspora, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 772 columns. Blue pebbled cloth with silver lettering on cover and spine in original printed dust jacket. Light blue decorative endpapers. Memorial volume for the prominent Jewish community of the city of Lwow (Lemberg) in Ukraine destroyed in..... More
Jerusalem: The Encyclopaedia of the Jewish Diaspora, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 772 columns. Original blue pebbled cloth with silver lettering on cover and spine. Light blue decorative endpapers. Memorial volume for the prominent Jewish community of the city of Lwow (Lemberg) in Ukraine destroyed in the Holocaust. This community..... More
Vienna: Phaidon-Verlag, 1927. Softcover. This work is a presentation copy: It is inscribed in black pen at free front endpaper by the author, Nathan M. Gelber, to Solomon Liptzin, a renowned Educator and Advocate of Yiddish Study (see below): "Herrn Doz. Dr. Solomon Lipkin zur Erinnerung überreicht vom Verfasser. Wien..... More
Heidelberg: Wunderhorn, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 334, [4]pp. Original pictorial wrappers over paper covered boards. Printer's device on fly leaf. Scarce and fascinating work on Heidelberg's Jewish community, from the 19th century to 1933, and Hitler's rise to power. This study is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w photographic reproductions..... More
Cleveland: Inter-Society Color Council, 1957. First edition. Spiral_bound. Quarto. v (i), 357pp. Original spiral-bound tan wraps with black and green lettering on cover and hand-lettered label glued to spiral spine. During his time as an editor of the ISCC News Letter from 1936 to 1954 the color scientist I.H. Godlove..... More
New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1931. Revised. Hardcover. 8vo. 70pp. Original green cloth with black lettering on cover. Revised version of a Hebrew alphabet book and reader first published in 1912. Includes b/w illustrations. Text in Hebrew. Corners slightly rubbed. Fore edge sunned. Overall in good condition. More
Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, Inc., 1938. First edition. Softcover. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. Original tan envelope with printed black lettering on the flap, as issued. Tan illustrated cord-tied heavy cardstock wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover. Light blue tassels on the cord. The work is a visual..... More
New York: Rubin Museum of Art in association with Mapin Publishing, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 214pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over burgundy cloth with gold lettering on spine. Color frontispiece. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, the goal of this catalogue is to bring together and..... More
New York: Seven Springs Center, 1981. Softcover. 8vo. xii, 50pp. Wrappers. Report on a study mission to Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Egypt. "We report here what we heard and what we saw. One trip does not produce all the facts. One report cannot cover all..... More
Le Caire: Publications de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1981. First edition. Softcover. Folio (14 x 10 3/4"). xxvii, [1], 364pp (Text), xii leaves (Plates) (Vol. 1); xiv, [2], 115, [1]pp (Text), xxv x 2 (50)pp (Plates) (Vol. 2). Original printed wrappers with red and black lettering to front covers. -..... More
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., ca. 1909. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxviii. 488pp. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Head and tail of spine chipped and worn. Wear to corners. Minor staining and scuffing to covers. Gilt top edge. Fore-and bottom edges untrimmed. "With the bookplate..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. Second edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXII, 1176pp. Original printed wrappers over blue cloth, with gold lettering and printer's device on spine. Fascinating work being a compendium of modern scholarship, designed to meet the needs both of the general reader and of the specialist in all fields of..... More
Stockholm: Beijers Bokförlagsaktiebolag, 1904. Hardcover. 4to. 289pp. 3-4 leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering to spine. Raised bands. Illustrated end papers. 2" tear to bottom of p. 8. Fascinating book on different peoples in Africa and Europe. Magnificentlz illustrated with many photographs, some full-page. In fine condition. More
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Mechelen: NP, 1845. Softcover. Ex-Library. 8vo. x,243,[9],pp. Original wraps bound in modern brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Signature by previous owner and date on half-title page. Sporadic foxing throughout, minor rippling to pages. Reinforced with white binders tape along gutter at front- and rear endpaper. Perforated library stamp..... More
London: Trübner & Co., 1879. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XII, 296pp. Original blind-stamped cloth with gold lettering and tooling on spine. Remarkable collection of Religious Treatises and Text-books promoting the advancement of Judaism for the instruction of Jewish youth. Some age wear on binding with corners and head and tail..... More
Tel Aviv: Putnams, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. xiv. 252pp. Embossed blue cloth and gilt lettering to cover and spine in original dj. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Minor bumping to edges. Some creasing and discoloration to dj. Scholarly research on a variety of art history topics, reated..... More
Moscow: Goskinoizdat, 1942. First edition. Softcover. Oblong 16mo. 5x7.5". Unpaginated. 24 pages. Photo-illustrated staple-bound b/w wrappers with white lettering on the front cover. This finely printed piece of Soviet military propaganda celebrates the heroism of the 1st Guards Tank Brigade of the Russian Army, and serves as photo-documentation of their..... More
Cincinnati: The American Hebrew Publishing House, The Bloch Printing Company, n/d. Hardcover. Ex library. Sm. 8vo. 342pp. Decorated light green cloth. Heavy age wear throughout binding. Split along gutter on title-page but firm. Stamp of Hebrew Union College on front-and rear endpaper. Scribbling in pencil and crayon on front endpapers..... More