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La Géographie du Talmud [SIGNED / FROM THE PERSONAL LIBRARY OF ISAAC M. WISE]

Neubauer, Adolphe

Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1868. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/2"). XL, 468pp. Original 3/4 olive morocco over dark green cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Raised bands. Publisher's logo to title page. Inside of front free endpaper signed in ink by previous owner, the renown Isaac Mayer Wise.*

Adolphe Neubauer's masterpiece, "La Géographie du Talmud" (1868), is an account of the geographical data scattered throughout the Talmud and early Jewish writings and relating to places in the Land of Israel.

Binding rubbed along edges with abrasion to leather. Front board detached but present. Spine partly detached. Some age-toning along paper margin. Text in French. Binding in overall poor, interior in good to good+ condition. poor to g+. Item #41348

* Isaac Mayer Wise (1819-1900), was a pioneer Reform rabbi, editor, and author. His major achievements were the establishment of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in 1873, the Hebrew Union College in 1875, and the Central Conference of American Rabbis in 1889. Isaac Mayer Wise offered innovative and influential views of the founding figures of Christianity as part of a program to defend Judaism against the inroads of Christianity while refusing to demonize it. He was amongst the earliest Jewish scholars to reclaim Jesus as a Jew, and, more controversially, to suggest that Paul was in fact the Talmudic figure, Acher.

Price: $250.00