London: Printed for John Murray, 1824. Third edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 3 leaves (Half-title missing), xlix (i), 379pp., 6 tables, 5 of them folding; 380-1037 (1)pp. Original black leather with gilt and decorative blind-stamped framing on covers, gilt lettering on red labels of spine, here with gilt tolling and ruling. Marbled..... 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
Boston: Printed by Isaiah Thomas Jun. 1814. Second edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 478pp. Original calf with gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Engraved title page vignette with biblical reference. Typeset by Watson & Bange. Text of the New Testament printed in Greek, printed in double columns. Second printing of this edition..... 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
Tokyo (東京): Chuo-Koron-sha (中央公論社), 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. 120 pages. Original green dust jacket with red lettering on the front cover, white lettering on the spine. With original protective glassine wrapper and publisher's obi as issued. Original price stickers and bookseller's laid in. One of Daido Moriyama's defining..... More
(Boston): Boston Book and Art Publisher, (1970). Picasso. 8vo. 300 (8) pp. Cardboard cover with dj. With 407 lithographs (some color). Some foxing to cover, dj, front and back pages, affecting only four pages of images. Foxing mostly to cover and dj. Overall, in good condition with good, but foxed..... More
Paris: G. Martin [et al.], 1728. First French Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [40], 416, [4: table, approbation; errata]pp. 3 folding engraved plans of the Temple of Solomon. Contemporary calf; spine with raised bands, elaborately tooled in gilt, with morocco lettering piece; blue silk ribbon marker. Upper joint wearing (but cords holding..... More
New York: Ktav, 1970. Reprint. hardcover. 4to, 175pp. Original gray cloth with black lettering on cover and spine. First printed in 1910, this work contains the original Hebrew text and translation of the fragments of a Zadokite work found in the Cairo Genizah and now known to have originated with..... More
Dresden; Leipzig: Heinrich Minden, [1894]. Vierte Auflage (Fourth edition). Hardcover. Quarto. [6], 266pp. Original illustrated red cloth with gilt lettering and decorative borders in gilt, silver and red on cover and spine. Marbled edges. Decorative endpapers. Publisher's device on title page. Red ribbon marker. Translated from Polish by Leonard Brixen..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd, 1890. First English language edition. Hardcover. Quartos. Vol.1: (xiv) 370pp. Vol.2: (x) 294pp. Illustrated blue cloth boards with grey lettering and figures on the front covers. Gilt lettering and grey illustrations on the spines. Publisher's device on the back covers. The work is a two-part..... More
Basel: Nikolaus Episcopius the Younger, 1558. Hardcover. Two volumes, octavo. I: a-z8 (blank a8) A-Z8 [alpha]-[gamma]8 [delta]4, 396 leaves, pp. [14], [2, blank], 774, [1, blank] [1, printer’s device]. II: Aa-Zz8 AA-ZZ8 Aaa-Ggg8 (blank Aaa8) Hhh4, 428 leaves, pp. [2], 779-1526, [2, blank], [103, index] [1, colophon], [1, blank], [1..... More
Jerusalem: J. Yunovitch, 1931. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. (xliii) 67pp. [1]. Tan textured paper wrappers with black lettering and publisher's device on the front cover, protected by modern mylar. Pages untrimmed. Volume one from the series of Hebrew translations from the writings of Hellenistic Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria. The..... More
Warsaw: Polish Institute of World Art Studies/ Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, 2017. First English language edition. Hardcover. Large quartos. 725pp. Photo-illustrated paper boards with black lettering on the front cover, white lettering on the spine. The definitive work on the subject of masonry synagogues in the..... More
Madrid: NP, nd. Softcover. 12mo. 372pp. Original paper wrappers with dust jacket. B&w photos throughout. D/j chipped at edges. Otherwise in very good condition. More
New York: Bloch, 1950. First edition thus. Hardcover. Octavo. xviii, 128pp. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine. Illustrated with 6 b/w drawings of clothing, synagogues and map of 1564 Poland and Lithuania. Translated from the Arabic with introduction by Mesch, preface by Dr. Solomon Grayzel. Very..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. xvii, 221pp.; 9pp., 30 multipage leporellos. Original half brown cloth over gilt decorated light tan linen of text volume, clamshell box with same binding and string ties, containing a light brown pamphlet with black and red lettering on cover and..... More
Leipzig: Leipziger Bibliophilen-Abend/ Faber & Faber, 1998. Limited first edition. Hardcover. 1/150. Quarto (13-3/4" x 10"). 26 un-numbered leaves. Original quarter orange cloth over decorative paper-covered boards, with purple lettering on the spine. Housed in matching slipcase. This copy (XLI) is one of 150 subscriber copies numbered in roman numerals..... More
Warsaw: B. Kleckin, 1929. First Yiddish edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 241pp. Original illustrated beige cloth with black and red lettering on cover, black on spine. Dark brown endpapers. Duotone frontispiece portrait. Rare first edition of the Yiddish translation of the acclaimed novel from the original German, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Novel..... More
Cincinnati: C. J. Krehbiel, 1895. Hardcover. 8vo. 264pp. Original purple cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Nehida Remy was a German Christian novelist and feminist activist who converted to Judaism in the later part of her life. This book was written in 1891 before her conversion while she..... More
Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, (1969). Hardcover. Large 4to. 316 pp. Illustrated with b&w drawings. Tan cloth with dj. Cover and text in near fine condition. Dj with a crease in upper right corner as well as browning to back. Overall, in very good condition. More
New York: Rabbi Jacob Joseph School Press, 1979. Hardcover. Large 8vo. xxvi, 322pp. Red cloth in original printed dust jacket. Dj creased and chipped. Head and tail of spine bumped. Overall in good- condition. More
Brooklyn: "Kehot" Publication Society, 1962. Softcover. 8vo. 127pp. Original paper wrappers. Front wrapper corner creased. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975. Second printing. Hardcover. 8vo. xxvii, 1000 pp. Illustrated black and white dust jacket, white and orange lettering on the front cover, orange lettering on the spine. Original beige cloth with gilt lettering on a black label on the spine. Frontispiece portrait of Sabbatai Sevi..... More