Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1866. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XVI, 612pp. Original half cloth over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Publisher's logo on title page. First edition of "Hellas und Rom in Religion und Weisheit, Dichtung und Kunst: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des menschlichen Geistes" (Hellas..... More
Budapest: Moritz Burian, 1887. Hardcover. 8vo. 240pp. Purple cloth with gilt lettering. Marbled page edges. Commentary on the Talmud, written by acclaimed Hungarian educator Moritz Ehrentheil (see below). Organized by topics. Bookseller plate and owner plate to inside of front board, the latter being from "Religionsschule des Louisenstädtischen Brüdervereins Ahavat..... More
Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag, 1920s. First edition. Softcover. Large Octavo. (6) 21 (1)pp. Original orange stiff wrappers with black ruling and lettering on cover. Publisher's logo on title page. Part of the series: The Jewish Community (Die Jüdische Gemeinschaft). Speeches and essays on contemporary questions of the Jewish people, edited by..... More
Glogau: Carl Fleming Verlag, 1906. Hardcover. 8vo. XX. 248pp. Green illustrated cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Blind embossed symbol of publisher to back board. Head and tail of spine rubbed and bumped. Some scuffing and staining to boards. Corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated page..... More
Paris: Privately Printed [Sybille Hess], 1880. Second edition. Hardcover. Scarce [Only two libraries worldwide own this book, according to OCLC]. 8vo. 182 [1] pp. Half maroon leather over marbled paper covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Raised bands. Modern endpapers. Inscribed by Sybille Hess [post mortem] to original free..... More
Hamburg: Printed by Conrad Müller, ca. 1830. First printing. Softcover. Duodecimo. 32pp. Original wraps with modern decorative paper spine in color, protected by modern mylar. Scarce. The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK) lists six copies worldwide: Stabi Berlin (restored), the Polish Union Catalog of Research Libraries, the Catalog of Swedish Libraries..... More
Sao Paulo, Brazil: Editora Madalena: ImageMagica, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. (13" x 10-1/4"). (520)pp. Triple column text. Black cloth spine over flexible black covers stamped in darker black. Housed in a heavy pictorial gray cloth portfolio stamped in black & white. Illustrated with 107 full-page color portraits (Marcus..... More
Berlin: Verlag der Schlesinger'schen Buch & Musikhandlung, Rob. Lienau, ca. 1900. Softcover. Two parts in one, as published. Folio. Part I: No. 2, Dritter Streich, 12pp. Part II: No. 3, Fünfter Streich. 12pp. Both parts with lithographed wrappers in vibrant colors of illustrations taken from Busch's original work which was..... More
Berlin: Friedländersche Buchdruckerei, 1847. First edition thus (with German commentary). Hardcover. 8vo. (6) 10pp. 40pp. xiv. 1/4 blue cloth over black paper covered boards. Printed on high quality cotton rag/ Famous work by renowned Medieval Jewish Rabbi, Physician and Philosopher, Moses Maimonides a.k.a. Ramba"m (1135-1204). Translated from Judeo-Arabic into Hebrew..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Heinrich Keller, 1886. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Elephant folio. Unpaginated. Rebound in red cloth boards. All edges gilt. The work is a collection of 20 fascinating heliogravure plates featuring paintings of 18th century Ashkenazi Jewish family life by Moritz Oppenheim. The plates are accompanied by text from Leopold Stein..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Heinrich Keller, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio (16 1/4 x 11 3/4"). 12 plates. Original red quarter-cloth portfolio over red buckram casing with front cover with gilt lettered and decorated illustration in center panel of cover, framed by four panels with floral designs, beveled edges. Inside..... More
Amsterdam: H. Eisendrath, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Unpaginated. Maroon pebbled cloth richly decorated in gilt, black, and gray with gilt lettering on cover and spine, beveled edges. Gilt edges. Decorative tan endpapers. Half-title and title page with decorative red double-frame and publisher's devices. All pages with decorative red double..... More
Stuttgart: Verlag von Paul Neff, 1882. Martin Rommel. Hardcover. Oblong folio. First part with 11 photographs and text plate, second part with separate title page, 6 albumen photographs, and text plate, all resting in gray cloth portfolio with silk-moire folding flaps. Front board richly decorated in gilt, blue, black, and..... More
Tel Aviv: Pinczower Reprints, 1972. Reprint. Softcover. 8vo. 32pp. Original wrappers. Reprint of the 1845 Vienna ("Verlag des Verfassers") - edition, including reprint of original title page, following reprint title page. Modern publisher's (Pinczower Reprints) announcements at last two pages. Work on circumcision in Islam and in the pre-Islamic Arabic..... More
New York: Hermon Press, 1965. Second American Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. (xii) 378pp [13]. Hebrew index in roman numerals at back. Grey dust jacket with blue lettering on front & back covers and spine. Grey cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. This is the second American edition of the..... More
Kiel: H. Fiencke, 1893. Hardcover. 8vo. 192pp. Original wrappers bound in modern green cloth with gold lettering on spine. Minor rubbing to binding. Ex-libris inside front board. Fascinating collection of documents on the position and opinion of several popes in regards to Jews and Judaism. Includes some laws of various..... More
Prague: Gottlieb Schmelkes, 1874. Hardcover. Octavo. 141 leaves (irregular pagination). Original black paper-covered boards. Violet end papers. Sermon for Sukkoth by Rabbi Dr. Moritz Tauber. The first part contains articles on spanish-Jewish literature and sermons for confirmation. The second part, which comes with its own title page and numbering, of..... More