Jerusalem: Mount Scopus Publications, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 4vo. 195pp. Purple cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed jacket. An analysis of zoning laws and other local ordinances in Jerusalem during the late 19th and early 20th century. Includes numerous maps. Translated from Hebrew. Dj slightly creased. Book..... More
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy. 8vo. 253pp. Gray half-cloth over maroon cloth with silver lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Corners bumped. Slight rippling to front pages. Library bookplate on front free endpaper. Overall in good condition. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo. vi, (1) 147 (2)pp. Original illustrated boards with pink lettering and framing on spine in original illustrated, glassine protected dustjacket. Illustrated title page. Headpiece illustrations. "This story is of love given and love withheld. Gleaming with sudden passages of..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 252 pp. Tan paper binding with blue cloth spine. Head and heel bumped. Binding illustrated. Price clipped dj. Minor spotting and light fading on dj. Otherwise, book in very good condition. More
Buenos Aires: Tsentral-farband fun Poylishe Yidn in Argentine, 1948. First Yiddish edition. Softcover. Octavo. 159pp. [1]. Photo-illustrated tan wrapper with black and tan lettering on the front cover. Published as the 30th volume of the Central Commitee of Polish Jews in Argentina's series on Polish Jewish studies. Cover images featuring..... More
Princeton, NJ. Princeton Univ Press, 1944. Third printing. Hardcover. 8vo. xxx. 105pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering and a gilt stamp of the American-Scandinavian Foundation on the front cover. Head and tail of spine bumped and rubbed. Corners bumped, shelf wear bottom edge. Some pencil underlining. Good- condition. More
Grätz: Joh. Andr. Kienreich, 1830. Hardcover. 6 volumes in one, complete as issued. 12mo. 97pp. 104pp. 117pp. 124pp. 136pp. 129pp. 3-4 leather over marbled boards. Light green endpapers. German translation of sermons by the Italian preacher Pater da Lojano. Front board and spine missing. Pages still firmly bound. Age wear to..... More
Paris: Librairie Universelle, 1905. Limited first edition. Softcover. 1/517. Elephant Folio. 17x12.5". 82pp. [1]. Tan illustrated wrappers in black and gold, with black lettering on the front cover and spine. Illustrated title page. Pages uncut. 517 deluxe limited copies of the first edition were issued. Of those, 499 copies were..... More
![Item #48749 Loshadka (Лошадка) [HORSE]. Leib Kvitko, Vladimir Konashevich, trans Samuil...](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/48749.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1641422168)
Moscow: Detizdat TSK VLKSM (Детиздат Цк Влксм), 1938. First edition. Softcover. 64mo. 3 x 2 1/4". Unpaginated. 10 pages. Staple-bound illustrated yellow and blue wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. A delightful miniature children's book written in verse, by acclaimed Yiddish-language poet Leib Kvitko (1890-1952). This edition has..... More
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Impériale, 1805. First complete French edition. Hardcover. Quartos. Vol.1: (xcvii) 528pp, 31pp. Vol.2: 460pp, 84pp. Black leather over dark blue marbled paper boards. Gilt lettering and ruling on the spines. The first full French translation of compiled research from the Asiatic Society of Bengal, originally published in..... More
![Item #22683 The Art of Papermaking [SIGNED]. Joseph De Lalande, Richard MacIntyre Atkinson, trans](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/22683.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1434441504)
Mountcashel Castle, Kilmurry, Sixmilebridge, Co. Clare, Ireland: The Ashling Press, 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 1/355. 118pp. Three-quarter bronze floral decorated brown leather over brown burlap, gold lettering on spine. Unique color mottled/marbled endpapers. Forepage edges untrimmed as issued. The first English language translation of 'Art de Le Papier' by Joseph..... More
Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, (2003). Hardcover. Dust jacket. In near fine condition. More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1841. First UK edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xvi, 208pp. Lavishly rebound in modern blue morocco over blue marbled paper boards, with gilt ruling on the covers and spine. Spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. Gilt edges of book block. Original yellow endpapers. An presentational..... More
Leiden: Samuel and Johannes Luchtmans, 1767. Second Schultens edition. Three parts, quarto. a-r4 s2 t4 (-t4) A-4P4 (= 409 leaves). [14], cxxxii, 301, [302]-603, [1, blank], [68, indices]pp. Engraved printer’s device at title, heraldic cartouche at dedication; woodcut head- and tail-pieces, lettrines; divisional titles at 2C3 and 2P4, register continuous..... More
Osnaburg, Stark County, OH: Henry Kurtz, 1836. First edition thus. Hardcover. Small Octavo. 450 (6)pp. Original calf with metal clasps. Printed in two columns. Includes the four gospels, the history of the apostles by Luke, Paul, Peter, John and other epistles in a translation of Martin Luther. At rear a...... More
Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik, 1951. Hardcover. 8vo. 175pp. Red quarter cloth over brown cloth in original printed dust jacket. Hebrew translation of Simone Luzzatto's classic Italian defense of Jews. This seventeenth century work of Jewish apologetics makes the case for Jewish tolerance on secular grounds in the sense that the presence..... More
Utrecht: Francisci Halma (Francis Halma), 1686. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. [3]. 56pp. Title page illustrated with decorative and deatiled woodlock printer's device. The work is a detailed list of the 613 Jewish laws, codified in the Hebrew bible, as presented according to Maimonides, in his work Sefer Mitzvot (The Book..... More
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
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. 8vo. (xxi), 236pp. Original printed grey dust jacket with black lettering on covers and spine. Red buckram boards, gilt lettering on spine. The 9th book of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah. Edited by Julian Obermann. Translated from the Hebrew by Herbert..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. 8vo. xvii, 299pp. Maroon cloth with gold decoration on spine in original printed dust jacket. The five treatises in this eleventh book of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah are mainly concerned with civil and criminal law. Edited by Julian Obermann. Translated from..... More
New York: Maimonides Publishing Co., 1927. Hardcover. Quarto. 54, 446, XIIpp. Original black cloth with gilt portrait of Maimonides with gilt reproduction of his signature on front board. Hold lettering on spine. Title-pages in English and Hebrew. First volume of this work including the following sections: Yesodei Hatorah, Deot, Teshuva..... More
London: Printed for J. Brindley, 1755. First English language edition. Softcover. Large octavo. [2], 49, xxii, 120pp. Bound in modern three-quarter paper over marbled paper-covered wraps. Two title-pages, as issued. First 49 page section contains "Memoirs of the life and writings of the learned author." In "Medica Sacra" Richard Mead..... More
New York: J. W. Bouton, 1877. First American edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXVII, [1], 347, [3], 24, [2]pp. Uncut. Original black-, and blind-stamped cloth with gold lettering on spine. This remarkable work bears the marks of many centuries of the different conditions of the Jewish nation, as well as of the..... 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
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