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Menorath hammaor. Eine moralisch-religiöse und erbauliche Lektüre für Jung und Alt. 3 Vols. in 1 (Candelabrum of Light. Edifying Moral and Religious Reader for Young and Old)

Abohab, Isaac (Aboab); R. J. Fürstenthal; Ben-Zion Behrend (translation)

Krotoschin (Krotoszyn): B. L. Monasch & Sohn, 1845–1848. First German edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 315, (1) 558, 392pp. Bound in modern brown half-cloth over decorative paper-covered boards with gilt lettering and decorative ruling on spine. Light brown endpapers. The author, Isaac Aboab lived in Toledo at the end of the..... More

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Item #50244 Polaroids. Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Colette Alvarez Urbajtel, Gregory Dechant,...

Polaroids

Alvarez Bravo, Manuel (photographs); Colette Alvarez Urbajtel (text); Gregory Dechant (translation)

Mexico City: Editorial RM, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 93.(1)pp. consisting chiefly of color Polaroid photos. Red cloth lettered in blue, mounted color photo on front cover. A fine, as new copy. Previously unpublished Polaroid photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo reproduced in the original Polaroid's dimensions. More

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Item #44043 Paraprasis Caldayca, en los Cantares de Selomoh; con el Texto Hebrayco, y Ladino,...

Paraprasis Caldayca, en los Cantares de Selomoh; con el Texto Hebrayco, y Ladino, Traduzida en Lengua Española [WITH] Perakim (Perkei Avot)

Belmonte, Moses (translation by)

Amsterdam: Yshak de Cordova, 5466 [1706]. Fifth printing. Hardcover. 16mo. 3.5x6". 167pp. (missing final page). Original brown calf boards. The book is a complete Spanish-language translation of the biblical book Song of Songs (Song of Solomon), and Perkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers), the famed collection Jewish ethical sayings taken..... More

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Laughter: An Essay on The Meaning of the Comic

Bergson, Henri; Cloudesley Brereton and Fred Rothwell (Authorised Translation by)

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. VII, [1], 200, [12]pp. Original dark blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Remarkable introduction to the meaning of what is comical: What does laughter mean? What common ground can we find between the grimace of a merry-andrew..... More

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Life and Work in Medieval Europe (Fifth to Fifteenth Centuries)

Boissonnade, P.; Eileen Power (Introduction and translation by)

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1937, 1944. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. XIX, [1], 394, [6]pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and medallion in gilt on front cover. Frontispiece. Captivating study of European economic development as a whole during the Middle Ages. This work is illustrated..... More

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Item #47731 Font's Complete Diary. A Chronicle of the Founding of San Francisco. Herbert Eugene...

Font's Complete Diary. A Chronicle of the Founding of San Francisco

Bolton, Herbert Eugene (Translation and Edited)

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xix, 552pp., 20 plates, 1 folding map. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Frontispiece photograph. Translated from the original Spanish manuscript of Pedro Font, With Anza to California, and edited by Bolton. "The comments on the..... More

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Item #48631 Neue Werkkunst. New Exterior and Interior Architecture. Fritz August Breuhaus de...

Neue Werkkunst. New Exterior and Interior Architecture

Breuhaus de Groot, Fritz August; Dorothy Regina Fischer (Translation)

Berlin - Leipzig - Wien: Friedrich Ernst Hübsch, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xxvi, 74pp., 2 plates. Original yellow clothe with modern design and typography in red and blue on cover, blue lettering on spine., protected by modern mylar. Frontispiece drawing of F. A. B. by Orlik. Publisher's device on..... More

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Historical Essay on the Colony of Surinam 1788

Cohen, Simon (Translation); Jacob R. Marcus (Editor)

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

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Item #30824 The German Universities for the Last Fifty Years. Authorized translation, notes maps,...

The German Universities for the Last Fifty Years

Conrad, Dr. J.; John Hutchison (Authorized translation, with maps, notes, and appendix by); James Bryce (Preface by)

Glasgow: David Bryce & Son, 1885. First English language edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXX, 333, [1], [3]pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine. The present work is a captivating survey of the German Universities for the last 50 years between 1835 and 1885. It forms the second part of..... More

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The Fasciculus Medicinae

de Ketham, Johannes; Luke Demaitre (English Translation by); Karl Sudhoff (Commentary by); Charles Singer (Translated and Adapted by)

Birmingham: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1988. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio.IX, [1], 128, [4]pp. Original brown leather with gold tooling on covers and gilt lettering on spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Remarkable facsimile of the first (Venetian) edition published in 1491 of the Fasciculus Medicinae, a “bundle” of six..... More

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Item #40636 Tsipor Pelaim: Bedayah al-pi Shir Germani. Richard Dehmel, Meir Mohar, J. Gleitsmann,...

Tsipor Pelaim: Bedayah al-pi Shir Germani

Dehmel, Richard; Meir Mohar (translation by); J. Gleitsmann (illustrations by)

Tel Aviv: Devir (Dvir), n.d. (1927?). First Hebrew Edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. Unpaginated (17)pp. White buckram spine over brown boards. Gold leaf debossed lettering on lithographic illustrated plate on front cover. The beautifully produced children's book is the Hebrew language translation of "Der Vogel Wandelbar" by German poet Richard Dehmel..... More

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Romanesque Mural Painting

Demus, Otto; Max Hirmer (photography); Mary Whittall (translation)

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9½" x 12") 654pp. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt spine titles, white dust jacket with color illustration in mylar cover. 102 color plates, 232 b&w ilustrations. The Definitive study of Romanesque muyral painting in Italy, France, Spain, England, Germany, and Austria..... More

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Die Kunst Marc Chagalls

Efross, A.; J.Tugendhold; Frida Ichak-Rubiner (Translation)

Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1921. 1. to 3. Thousand. Hardcover. Quarto. 77 (3) pp. Three-quarter black library tape over turquois boards with black lettering on cover, white on spine, protected by modern mylar. Frontispiece portrait photograph. Authorized translation from the Russian. Divided into three chapters A. Efross' first contribution is..... More

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Sources Chrétiennes No. 333 : Contre Hiéroclès

Eusèbe de Césarée; Marguerite Forrat (Introduction, translation and notes by); Edouard des Places S. J. (Greek text established by)

Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 1986. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 236, [8]pp. Original printed wrappers with printer's device on front cover. Fascinating work being a treatise against Hierocles (a Roman governor and Neoplatonic philosopher), in which Eusebius combated the former's glorification of Apollonius of Tyana. Minor age-toning on spine. Text..... More

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Item #48140 Pietre Dure. The Art of Semiprecious Stonework. Annamaria Giusti, Fabio Barry, Mark...

Pietre Dure. The Art of Semiprecious Stonework

Giusti, Annamaria; Fabio Barry (translation); Mark Greenberg (ed.)

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 264pp. Original black cloth with blind-stamped lettering on spine, in original color-illustrated dustjacket, white lettering on spine. Glossy orange endpapers. Color frontispieces. "From the ancient history of decorative stonework comes a very special artistic phenomenon, and this richly illustrated..... More

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Item #48108 La Nuova Italia. "La Guerra Che Noi Preferiamo" (The New Italy. "The War we Prefer")....

La Nuova Italia. "La Guerra Che Noi Preferiamo" (The New Italy. "The War we Prefer")

Glauco, Scilla de; Rosario Ingargiola (translation)

New York: Nikola Press, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant Folio (15 7/8 x 13"). Original light brown half cloth over illustrated paper-covered boards with black-border gray lettering creating the effect of thre-dimensionality. Cover illustration by Attila Gremigni. Photogravure by Oreste Cuppini. With portrait of Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy and..... More

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Item #48509 Stefanie Schneider 29 Palms, CA [INSCRIBED]. Stefan Gronert, George Frederick Takis,...

Stefanie Schneider 29 Palms, CA [INSCRIBED]

Gronert, Stefan; George Frederick Takis (Translation)

Basel: Galerie Kämpf, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed "Stefanie Schneider meinem Dominique in Liebe" on colophon at rear. 35/100 numbered and signed, edition of 400 total. Quarto. 28pp., stiff unnumbered boards, including covers. Original photo-illustrated boards with black lettering on cover and spine, housed in photo-illustrated stiff paper slipcase; cover..... More

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Item #28553 Dodi Ve-Nechdi (Uncle and Nephew) Now edited from MMS. at Munich and Oxford, with an...

Dodi Ve-Nechdi (Uncle and Nephew) Now edited from MMS. at Munich and Oxford, with an English Translation, Introduction, etc., to which is added the first English Translation from the Latin of Adelard of Bath's Quaestiones Naturales

Hanakdan, Berachya (Berechiah ben Natronai); Hermann Gollancz (Translation, Introduction)

London: Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press, 1920. First English language edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XXII, 161pp (English), 59pp (Hebrew). Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan, ("ha-Nakdan", meaning "the punctuator" or "grammarian"), commonly known as Berachya, (13th century) was a Jewish exegete, ethical writer, grammarian, translator..... More

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Item #53290 A Papyrus of The Late Middle Kingdom In the Brooklyn Museum. William C. Hayes, Ed.,...

A Papyrus of The Late Middle Kingdom In the Brooklyn Museum

Hayes, William C. (Ed. with translation and commentary)

Brooklyn, New York: The Brooklyn Museum, 1972. Reprint. Hardcover. Large Quarto. [2] 165pp., [1] 14 plates. Original light brown textured cloth with Brooklyn Museum logo in red and reverse brown lettering on cover, gilt lettering and ruling on red label of spine. Publisher's device on title page. Wilbour Monographs -..... More

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Item #46993 The Spirit of Hebrew Poetry. 2 Vols. Johann Gottfried Herder, James Marsh, translation

The Spirit of Hebrew Poetry. 2 Vols.

Herder, Johann Gottfried; James Marsh (translation)

Burlington: Edward Smith, 1833. First American edition Ex Library. Hardcover. Octavo, 293 (1), 320pp. Original three-quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt lettering on red and green leather labels of spine. Speckled edges. With translator's and author's preface and the author's "Plan of the Work" at front: "The beautiful and..... More

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Item #55799 The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám. Edward Heron-Allen, Ella Hallward, Translation and, Ill

The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám

Heron-Allen, Edward (Translation and Editor); Ella Hallward (Ill.)

London: H. S. Nichols Ltd., 1898. Second edition, carefully revised and considerably expanded. Hardcover. Quarto. [12] xlii, 320pp. Original three-quarter red Morocco with gilt ruling on covers, gilt lettering, ruling and tooling on spine. Top edge gilt. Textured red endpapers. Beautiful frontispiece engraving in three colors with tissue guard. Original..... More

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Item #44373 The Flowers of Remembrance and Forgetfulness (Japanese Fairy Tale Series No.22). T. H...

The Flowers of Remembrance and Forgetfulness (Japanese Fairy Tale Series No.22)

James, T.H. (translation by)

Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, n.d. Softcover. Small octavo. Unpaginated. Illustrated string-tied wrappers with red and white lettering. Printed on crepe paper, in chirimen-bon (ちりめん本) style. French fold double leaves. This work is #22 in the series of English-language translations of traditional Japanese folk tales, published by Takejiro Hasegawa in the late..... More

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Apparatus Biblicus: or, an Introduction to the Holy Scriptures

Lamy, Bernard; Richard Bundy (Dedication, and translation by)

London: Printed by S. Palmer, 1723. First English language edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. XXVIII, 540pp. Original gilt-stamped calf, with gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece. Vignette on title page. Title in red and black lettering. Decorative head-, tailpieces, and initials. Originally published in 1696, "Apparatus biblicus"..... More

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Item #47525 Apparatus Biblicus, Sive Manuductio Ad Sacram Scripturam, Tum clarius, tum facilius...

Apparatus Biblicus, Sive Manuductio Ad Sacram Scripturam, Tum clarius, tum facilius intelligendam

Lamy, Bernard; Richard Bundy (Dedication, and translation)

Lugduni (Lyon): Jacobum Certe, 1723. Editio Novissima (New edition). Hardcover. Quarto. (20) 412 (62) table and indices, 11 plates (10 folding) bound in, 1 folding alphabet, 11 plates at rear. Full vellum with brown lettering on spine. Title page with publisher's device. Decorative head- and endpieces, historiated initials. In this..... More

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Heiligdommen Godsdiensten, en Gewoontens Der Oude Jooden, Voorgesteldt in eene uytvoerige Verhandeling, van het Levitische Priesterdom. In Vyf Boeken. 2 Vols. (Customs, Services and Buildings of the Ancient Jews; 25 Full Page Engravings. Complete)

Lundius, Johannes Johann Lund); I. le Long (translation); Gerardus Outhof (ed.)

Amsterdam: Antoni Schoonenburg, en Nicolaas Ten Hoorn, 1726. First Dutch edition. Hardcover. Folio. Vol. 1: 15 leaves, 850 (10)pp., 19 plates, incl. frontispiece title, and Lundius portrait and tabernacle in forewords; Vol. 2: (1) 852 (11)pp., 6 plates. Original calf with gilt double ruling on covers and gilt lettering on..... More

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