New York: Pantheon Books, 1953-1968. Hardcover. Complete 13 volume set. Lg. 4to. Blue and black cloth with gold-decorated cover and gold lettering on spine. Blue top edge. A revolutionary work on the study of Jewish art, which caused art historians to reevaluate the concept of Jews in the classical period...
Paris: Librairie des Arts Décoratifs. A. Calavas, éditeur. 1930's. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 4pp. of descriptive text, 48 leafs of plates. Original printed portfolio with string ties. Preface by Henri Guttmann. Fascinating work displaying some of the most precious and rarest items from the Judaica art collection of S. M.Salomon.....
1877. 12mo. 79pp. 1/4 cloth over paper covered boards. Ex libris. yellow endpaper. Introduction to Jewish customs and ceremonies. Minor age wear. Overall clean and tight. In German, with some Hebrew insertions. Very good condition. Singerman (Judaica Americana) 2074.
New York: Bloch, 1929-1932. Hardcover. 4 volumes. All are bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. vol. 1: 90pp. 40pp.; Vol. 2: 460pp. 48 pp.; vol. 3: 629pp. 59pp.; vol. 4: 635pp. 155 pp. Fore- and bottom edges uncut. Frontispiece to last two volumes. :Menorat Ha- Meor" [the...
Berlin: Buchhandlung "Jalkut" 1925. First printing. Softcover. 4to. 320pp. Gray paper wrappers with black print on front and spine. This in memoriam publication was overseen by a committee of M. C. Aleynikov, IU. D. Brutskus, S. K. Gepshteyn, A. M. Gol'dshteyn, V. E. (Ze'ev) Zhabotinsky (Jabotinsky), S. D. Zal'tsman, I....
Cologne: Sumptibus Mauritii Georgii Weidmanni, 1691. Hardcover. Folio. [72], 1102, [8], 68, [28]. Contemporary vellum with brown lettering ["Flavii Josephi Opera"] Title in red and black with engraved printer's device./ Ornamental initials; head and tailpieces./ Latin and Greek in parallel columns./ "Ad Flavii Josephi Opera appendix, quae continentur Aristeas de...
London: J. Cooke, ca 1790. Later edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio. VI, 7-723, [3]pp. Full maroon morocco. Engraved frontispiece. Decorative tailpieces. Remarkable edition of the works of Flavius Josephus, providing crucial information about the First Jewish-Roman War and an important literary source material for understanding the context of the Dead Sea...
Amsterdam: Gerard onder de Linden, 1726, 1727. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Folio. Continuous pagination. [24] 1940 (the last seven pages of vol. 1 are numbered 658+1 until 658+7). Contemporary leather with embossed gilt decoration, title plate ["Flavius Josephus "]. Raised bands. Title in first volume in black and red lettering, in...
Moskwa (Moscow): Wydawnictwo Literatury W Jezykach Obcych (Foreign Language Literature Publishers), 1944. First edition. Softcover. 24mo. 38, [2]pp. Original printed wrappers. Publisher's logo to title page. Originally published on August 12, 1944, in the Soviet daily "Izvestiia," this powerful work is the first Polish-language book edition of the account of the...
Warsaw: NP, n.d. Softcover. Octavo. 4 page folded pamphlet. Orange label with black text tipped on the cover, titled "Objasnienie" (Explanation). The publication offers an explanation of Genesis 49:1 in which Jacob offers his sons a prediction of the end. Basing himself on the 15th century biblical commentator Isaac Abarbanel...
Leipzig: Kommissionsverlag von Eduard Heinrich Mayer, 1899. Softcover. WITH ORIGINAL THREE-PAGE LETTER BY NAHIDA RUTH LAZARIUS, dated 12 April 1900. Ex-library. Library stamp in Hebrew on margins of few pages (transliteration "Haikhal Shlomo - Ha-Sifriah _?_ Ha-Merkazit L'Yisroel Yerushhalayim"). 8vo. viii, 213pp. Original gold-stamped and illustrated blue wraps protected by...
Basel: Ludovici König, 1629. Hardcover. Square octavo. 6.5x8" [20 leaves], 532pp. [+26 leaves of index]. Original vellum boards with blind-stamped ruling with deckled edges. The work is the second Latin translation of Maimonedes' "The Guide for the Perplexed" ever published. The first Latin translation was by Agostino Giustiniani and published...
Jerusalem: Makor Publishing Ltd., 1972. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/290. Complete 4 volume set. 4to. Half-leather over blue cloth gold-stamped image on the cover and raised bands. Brown edges and yellow book mark ribbons. Hebrew and English title-pages. Facsimile of the 1509 Constantinople printing of Maimonides' famous code of Jewish Law...
Krakau: Josef Fischer, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 15(1)pp. Half green cloth over paper covered boards with brown lettering and original printed plum wrappers bound in. Publisher's device on wraps with oval stamp of bookseller S. Marcus underneath imprint. Herzel's "Judenstaat" as discussed during the general assembly of "Chowewe Erez...
Cracow: Hefner & Berger, ND (ca 1935). First edition. Softcover. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated. [1] leaf (Title and captions), [12] leaves (Photographic plates). Original string bound olive wrappers with silver lettering and illustration on front cover. Second installment of a collection of photographs of the Holy Land containing twelve photogravures captioned...
Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1948-2007. Hardcover. Large octavo. Complete run of the American Jewish Archives Series from 1948 to 1996, includes vols 1 through 48 as well as seven vols from the succeeding series, titled the American Jewish Archives Journal (1998, 2000, 2002, 2003 pt.2, 2006 & 2007). Vols 1-31...
New York: American Jewish Comittee, 1938-1945. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Vols 1-5 have been bound together in contemporary cloth hardcover editions and the final 3 vols are in the original printed softcover wrappers. Vols 1-3 are bound in dark blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Vols. 4-5 in Green...
Mantuba: Eliezer Shlomo. Softcover. Duodecimo, 236pp. Original beige wrapper. Collection of Prayers and Psalms which are the traditional way to introduce and prepare for Shavuot. Contains all the Torahportians, which lead to and fall together with Shavuot: Devarim, Vaetchanan, Ekev, Re'eh, Shoftim, Tetze, Tavo, Netzavim, Vayelekh, Ha'asinu, VeZot Habrachah and...
Jerusalem: Published by the Bialik Foundation through Waad Ha-Lashon, 1937. First edition. Softcover. Large octavo. XII. 294, [2]pp. Original printed wrappers with black lettering to covers and spine. Frontispiece. Illustrated with numerous b/w plates, this scarce dictionary offers an extended Hebrew language definition of no less than 1793 German Graphic...
Viennae (Vienna): Georg Brög, 1878-1892. Hardcover. Complete 8 volume set. Quarto. Original 3/4 morocco over red cloth with raised bands, gold tooling and lettering on spines. All paper edges gilt. Title-pages in Latin and Hebrew. Fascinating work being the scientific edition of the Aruch, a medieval lexicon of Talmud and...
New York: Kirk and Mercein, 1819. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. vi,[1],431,xlviipp. Original calf. Frontispiece engraving of author. Inside bottom corner of frontispiece chipped, water staining on same leaf. Illustrated with four engraved plates showing Algiers, the Fortress of Goletta near Tunis (in fold-out, separated in two pieces), Merchant Slave &...
Ienae: Impensis viduae Ioh. Rudolphi Croekeri, 1740. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [16], 730, [54]pp. Original 3/4 vellum over paper covered boards, with contemporary handwritten title on spine. All edges red. Decorative head- and tailpieces. Decorative initial. Rare and fascinating work on Jewish customs and ceremonies written by one of the...
London: Nonpareil, 1981-1982. Limited and Revised edition. Hardcover. 1/650. Folio. XXXI, [1], 277, [1], 128pp. Original gilt-stamped red goatskin with gold lettering on spine. Decorative endpapers. Half title signed by Alfred Rubens. Pictorial title page in red and black lettering. One of 100 copies bound in red goatskin (No.299). The...
Amsterdam: Yohanan Levi Rofe, 1783. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy. 8vo. 102pp. Original three-quarter leather over paper boards with image in leather of a crown pasted on. Tailpiece. Passover Haggadah with commentaries and digest of laws for Passover. The text is laid out in Talmudic fashion with the main text...
Berlin: Hasefer, (1923). First edition. Hardcover. 1/1700. Quarto. 32pp. Original gold- and silver-stamped black cloth with gilt and silver lettering on front cover. This beautiful vocalized poem is complete with its ten full-page sepia-toned reproductions of drawings executed by Herman Struck during the First World War, while stationed in Vilna...
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