New York: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/1500. Folio. xix, 177pp, [1]. Maroon buckram slip case, red label with gilt lettering on spine. Red leather over brown cloth boards, gilt letter "O" on front cover. Tan cloth label with gilt lettering mounted on spine. Frontispiece. This limited edition, #87..... More
Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1964. Second edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 113, [1]pp. Original burgundy red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Publisher's logo on spine and title page. This remarkable study on the mythological and ritual texts found at Ras Shamra (northern Syria) sheds a great deal of light..... More
New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1962. First edition for this translation. Softcover. Octavo. XI, [1], 158pp. Original illustrated wrappers over black cloth with silver lettering on spine and medallion in silver on front cover. Alfarabi (ca. 870-950), the great Arab philosopher and founder of the Islamic philosophic tradition..... More
New York: Universe Books, Inc., 1960. First American edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. Unpaginated. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over brown cloth, with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Color frontispiece. Publisher's logo on title page. This striking photo-book is an account of the authors' perilous journey deep into the forests of..... More
Wien; Leipzig: Verlag der Goldenen Klassiker-Bibel Max Herzig, [1894]. First edition thus. Hardcover. Folio. 76, 1080 columns (38, 540pp), 708 columns (354pp), [127]pp (plates). Splendid blind and gilt-stamped crushed full morocco with gold lettering and decoration on front covers and spines. Beveled edges. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Decorative endpapers..... More
Paris: Charles Carrington, 1905. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/750. Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/2"). [8], xlviii, 328pp. Uncut. Later 3/4 olive morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Original wrappers bound in. Ribbon marker. Tissue-guarded etched frontispiece. Title page..... More
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987-1991. vg+ to near fine. Quarto. Vol. 1: (ix), [3], 670 pp. Vol. 2: (xiii), [2], 650pp. Vol. 3: [6], 645 pp. Vol. 4: [7], 713 pp. Vol. 5: [6], 630 pp. Original illustrated dust jackets, white lettering on covers and spines..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1929. First UK edition. Hardcover. 1/960. Large quarto (11 3/4 x 9 1/4"). XII, 330, [4]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over burgundy cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Illustrated title page in red and black lettering. Book housed in its original paper covered slipcase. This handsomely..... More
Birmingham: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1986. Limited edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 107, [3]pp. Original gold-tooled leather with gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon marker. Remarkable work on methaphysical healing methods in Late-antique, exquisitely illustrated with 30 full-color plates, each one facing its captioned page..... More
New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 192pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over orange cloth with blue lettering on spine and white lettering on front cover. Endlessly experimenting with design, composition, and color, Hiroshige captured in these paintings, as no where else in his work, his poetic and..... More
Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 3/4 x 7"). 260pp. Original photo-illustrated paper covered boards. "1 Esdras is an alternative version of the book of Ezra-Nehemiah in the Septuagint. Most Eastern Orthodox churches accord the book canonical status. This is the first commentary on 1 Esdras based on..... More
Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. IX, [1], 170pp. Original gilt-, and blind-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece. 'Being about to write down the disastrous voyage of this great ship, it occurred to me how rash men are..... More
Bucarest: Univers Enciclopedic, 1995. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 318pp. [3]. Photo-illustrated black wrappers with red lettering on the front cover and the spine. The work details the events leading up to and including the arrest, detention, sentencing and execution of Romanian Communist activist and militant Marcel Pauker (1896-1938), who was..... More
London: John Murray, 1879. First UK edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 x 6"). xliv, 486pp (Vol. 1); xiv, 364, [2], 16pp (Publisher's catalogue) (Vol. 2). Original black stamped burgundy cloth, with gold lettering to spines. Colored lithographic frontispiece in each volume. This work undertakes the Herculean task of weaving the testimony..... More
London: W. Thacker & Co., 1898. First English language edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 x 6"). 335, [1]pp, [4]pp (Publisher's catalogue). Original gilt-stamped brown cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Illustrated throughout with 38 in-text and full-page b/w illustrations and photographic reproductions, this work, first published..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913. Reprint. Hardcover. 16mo. XVIII, 262, 6pp. Original printed soft cloth. Remarkable work by David Cassel (1818–1893), German educator and scholar. Cassell was one of a group including L. Zunz, M. Steinschneider, and others that founded the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement for the scientific study..... More
New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1963. First edition for this translation. Hardcover. Octavo. XV, [1], 199, [1]pp. Original illustrated wrappers over blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. This remarkable work is the first full-scale analysis of the humanism and Platonism of the Renaissance by a trained philosophic mind..... More
New York: Van Winkle and Wiley, 1814. First American edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/4"). 471, [1]pp, 46pp (Appendix and Index). Original full-calf boards. Rebacked. Gold lettering to spine. Illustrated with six full-page wood- and copper engravings, as well as a folded plan of Jerusalem, this work narrates..... More
Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1703. First French language edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 x 7"). [20], 830, [48]pp (Tables of Content). Original full calf, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Additional engraved title page by F. Doesburgh, a Dutch engraver active between 1680 and 1714. Vignette on..... More
New York: Astor, 1965. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. xvii. 155. Brown and white cloth in original dj. Decorative endpapers with b/w facsimile of a map of Morocco. Inscribed by translator, saying "To Judith and Zaki, May the erudite and the sophisticated find pleasure in these simple simple tales. Arnon." Some..... More
London: Printed for The Hakluyt Society, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XLVII, [1], 386, [2], XXXIX, [1]pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original gilt-, and blind-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Pedro Cieza de León (c. 1520-1554) was a Spanish conquistador and chronicler of Peru. He is known primarily..... More
Cambridge: Printed for The Hakluyt Society, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XII, 212, XXXVIpp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original gilt-, and blind-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. This remarkable volume is mostly a translation of the third book (1543-44) of Cieza's "Civil Wars of Peru," translated and edited..... More
Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1995. Reprint. Softcover. Quarto. 489, [1]pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Hermann Cohen's Religion of Reason, Out of the Sources of Judaism (first published in 1919) is widely taken to be the greatest work in Jewish philosophy and religious thought since Maimonides' Guide to the Perplexed. It is..... More
Berlin: Volksverband der Bücherfreunde Wegweiser Verlag G.m.b.H, ND [1928]. Private publication. Hardcover. Large octavo. 579, [1]pp. Original 3/4 calf over illustrated paper covered boards. Top edge green. Ribbon marker. Publisher's logo on title page. Illustrated initials. Exquisite German-language edition of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans," magnificently illustrated..... More
London: George Allen & unwin Ltd, 1949. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 240pp. Original printed wrappers over burgundy cloth with gold lettering on spine. Croces's essays compiled in this remarkable work possess an underlying unity. This is a volume that has every relevance to our time, embodying a philosophy not for..... More