Amsterdam: Hirts Levi Rofe, [1732]. Third edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [1] 199 leaves (double-sided), [2]. Rebound in 3/4 brown morocco over red marbled paper boards. Title page with decorative woodcut borders on the top and bottom. This influential work on Jewish ethics by noted Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Abraham, ha-Kohen of..... More
Los Angeles: American Congress of Jews from Poland and Survivors of Concentration Camps, 1983. First edition. Softcover. Oblong Quarto. (4) 55 leaves, incl. 49 photographic plates. Original white stiff spiral-bound wraps with black lettering and publisher's device on cover. Catalog of the photo-exhibition "The Tragedy of the Jewish Child Under..... More
Livorno: Eliyahu ben Amozeg u-Vanav, [1887]. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 34, [4] (double-sided leaves). Rebound in modern brown buckram boards, with a gilt motif on the front cover and gilt lettering on the spine. Floral woodblock borders on the title page. This interesting Passover Haggadah created by prominent Baghdadi Rabbi..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Balthasar Christoph Wust, 1676. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. [16], 1016, [14], 246, [52]pp. Contemporary full vellum with handwritten title on spine. All paper edges colored. Engraved frontispiece by Recknagel. Title page in red and black lettering. Vignette on title page. Decorative head-, tailpieces, and initials. Remarkable German edition..... More
Amsterdam: Chez la Veuve Schippers, & Henry Wettstein, 1681. Hardcover. Folio. (20), 464pp. (21) ,477-758pp. (24). Contemporary leather with embossed gilt decoration and title plate ["Histoire des Juifs "] Modern (19th century) marbled endpapers. Magnificently illustrated with over 200 in-text copper engravings throughout the book. Contains: - Histoire des Juifs..... More
Kiskőrös, Hungary: 1949. Original photographs. 11 1/2 x 13 1/4". An original large glossy b/w photograph of a memorial plaque made in memory of those members of the Jewish community of Kiskőrös, Hungary who were murdered in the Holocaust. The plaque consists of a powerful hand-painted illustration at the top..... More
Cincinnati: The Bloch Printing Company, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 57pp. [3]. Original black cloth over beige soft paper boards with black lettering on the front cover. A charming short story for young adults collected from the pages of the American Jewish youth literary magazine "The Sabbath Visitor" (1874-1885, also..... More
Utrecht: Ultrajecti. Apud Franciscum Halma, 1683. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 8 leaves, incl. frontispiece, 535pp. Bound in modern light brown full vellum with brown lettering on spine, beveled foredge. Speckled edges. Decorative endpapers. Frontispiece, engraved additional title page. Title page printed in red and black with publisher's device. Decorative initials..... More
Hamburg: Johann Wolffgang Fickweiler, 1722. Later edition. Hardcover. Folio. (40) (2) 1090 (142)pp. (Index), 30 plates, incl. frontispiece. Original full vellum with handwritten title in ink on spine. Red edges. Engraved frontispiece. Title page in red and black lettering. Five half-titles. Decorative and historiated head-, tailpieces and initials. Marginalia. Remarkable..... More
Trieste: Tipografia del Lloyd Austriaco, 1855. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 15pp. Original pink wrappers, sunned to a tan color. This scarce and intriguing publication is a Jewish prayer book created as a result of sever casualties in the city of Trieste during the outbreak of the Third Cholera Pandemic (1846–1860)..... More
Chicago: Isaac S. Moses, 1896. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 62pp. Beige printed wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. A scarce song book collecting 45 American Jewish liturgical melodies and prayers for use in choral singing in Reform congregations, arranged and edited by Rabbi Isaac S. Moses (1847–1926). Contains..... More
ca. 1927-1929. Original photographs. Print sizes range from 4x2.5" to 6.5x4.5". This collection of original b/w photographs of the Betar movement seems to feature at least 4 different events ranging from 1927-1929. These events are all related to the celebration of the movement and/or the annual commemoration of the death..... More
Berlin: Die Gemeinschaft/ Liberalen Synagoge Norden in Berlin, 1927. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 16pp. [7]. Textured grey paper wrappers with gilt lettering and ruling on the front cover. Published in Hebrew orientation, with pagination from right to left. Modernist typography and design on the front cover and title page. This..... More
Koblenz: Bundesarchiv, (1986). First edition. Hardcover. Folio. xvi,1823pp. (Continuos pagination). Black cloth with border and title in gold on front cover, gold lettering on spine. Two volume memorial book listing the German Jews that fell victim to the Holocaust. The work was inspired by the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem..... More
Frankfurt: J. Kauffmann, 1903-1932. Annual. Octavo. Original illustrated green cloth with black lettering on cover and spine. Decorative endpapers. Complete set of this organ for scientific discussion of Jewish culture and the history of ideas. Next to the Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums (Monthly for History and Scientific..... More
Jerusalem: Dormition Abbey, n.d. (ca 1933). First edition. Softcover. Three Oblong octavos (10 1/2 x 6 1/4" for "Jerusalem N. E.", 9 1/4 x 6 1/4" for "Jerusalem S.", and 6 1/4 x 8 1/2" for "Jerusalem") + one 16mo. (3 1/4 x 5 3/4" for "Jerusalem"). Unpaginated. Original brown..... More
Belgrade: The Federation of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia, 1970-1987. First edition. Softcover. Octavos. Illustrated wrappers, some glossy, with black lettering on front covers. This is a run of the periodical, including May-Oct. 1970, Jan-Feb. 1972, Nov-Dec. 1972, May-June 1973, July-Oct. 1974, Jan.-Apr. 1975, July-Oct. 1975, Nov.-Dec. 1976, July-Aug. 1977, Mar.-Aug..... More
Prague: Council of Religious Communities of Prague, 1945. First printing. Softcover. 64mo. (2 1/4 x 3 1/2"). Original photo-illustrated stiff wraps holding ten plate leporello with b/w captioned photographs. Text in Polish. Covers with very light wear along edges and minor staining on verso. The verso of the leporello covers..... More
Wilkomierz, Lithuania: Deutsche Verwaltung im Gebiet des Oberbefehlshabers Ost, 1917. Original document. Staple bound wraps. Sextodecimo. (5 7/8 x 3 1/2"). 8pp. Original blue wraps with German Eagle and black ruling and lettering on cover. Stamp of the Deutsche Verwaltung i. Gebiet d. Oberbefehlshabers Ost printed to back cover, protected..... More
Livorno: Nahman Sa'adon, 1825. Softcover. 8vo. Unpaginated. 34 leaves. Missing 4 leaves at rear. 19th century marbled wraps. Historiated initials. Illustrated Haggadah according to the Sephardic tradition. Includes beautiful copper plate illustrations designed by Israel ben Daniel Zifroni. Includes images of the ancestors of the Israelites worshipping images of the..... More
New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 10 vols. Double column text. Each volume is approx. 250pp. All are uniformly bound in brown cloth with white lettering on spine. A fine, as new set. "America confronts Judaism with the challenge and the opportunity of addressing Jews in..... More
Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden): Henricum Teering, 1706. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [16], 285, [3]pp. Contemporary full vellum with gold lettering on spine. Decorative paper edges. Red and black lettering on title page. Vignette. Decorative headpiece and initials. Remarkable history of Hebrew burial customs illustrated with numerous b/w figs, 2 in-text and..... 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
Paris: Michel Sonnius, 1588. Early edition. Hardcover. 12mo (7 x 4 3/4"). [8], 528, [32] leaves. Contemporary full vellum with handwritten title to spine. Publisher's title vignette. Decorative headpieces and initials. Originally published in 1575, this first French language edition of the works of Philo, a first-century Alexandrian philosopher known..... More