![Vilnah: Po'emah Metsuyeret [HEBREW]. Zalman Shneour, Hermann Struck.](/pictures/thumb/24566.jpg?v=1434441593)
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... More
![Bylismy w Owiecimiu [We Were in Auschwitz] 6643 Janusz nel Siedlecki, 75817 Krystyn Olszewski, 119198 Tadeusz Borowski. Janusz Nel Siedlecki, Krystyn Olszewski, Tadeusz Borowski, Anatol Girs, design.](/pictures/thumb/44668.jpg?v=1547859329)
Warsaw: Oficyna Warszawska, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 212pp. [1]. Bound in authentic war time blue and gray striped stiff paper boards, representing the material of uniforms worn by Auschwitz prisoners. White linen identification badge with prisoners number and the letter "P" within a red triangle on front cover. This... More
Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1988-1991. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. XV, [1], 549, [1], [551]-1132, [1133]-1624, [1625]-2116, [2117]-2511, [1], 2513-2948, X, 469, [1], 176pp. Original printed wrappers. This remarkable work relates the history of papal Jewry policy in the Middle Ages from the days of Gelasius I to those... More
Warsaw: Towarzystwo Wydawnicze "Rój" 1934. Ex-library, First Polish edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 311pp. [9]. Rebound in 3/4 tan cloth over brown paper library binding with black lettering on the spine. Original illustrated wrappers bound in. This is a scarce copy of the first Polish-language edition of I.J. Singer's acclaimed novel... More
Two Series of anti-Nazi postcard caricatures printed in color (all 5,5" x 3,5" postcatds) by Dutch artist Smits; mounted with photo corners to four leaves of 12"x 8" blank white paper: 1) 5 uncaptioned caricatures showing Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt in a rather jovial mood, Joseph Stalin being sceptical... More
Jerusalem: State of Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, 1963. First edition. Softcover. 4to. ci, 237pp. Gray wrappers with black lettering on front and spine. Preface by R. Bachi, Government Statistician. Publication no. 9 from the Population and Housing Census of 1961, "provides detailed information on Labour Force Participation, Economic Branch... More
Jerusalem: State of Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. xxviii,127pp. Dark blue mottled oil cloth ledger binding with two metal bolts. Compiled by Arieh Shahar, Uzi Paran, Arieh Bittan, with a preface by Professor R. Bachi, the Government Statistician. Details every administrative area of Israel at... More
Odessa: L. Nitzsche, 1871. First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. [4], 191, [1]pp. Modern half burgundy cloth over decorative paper covered boards, with handwritten lettering on spine. Powerful essay on the religious, political and social conditions of the Jews in Czarist Russia. Contemporary inscriptions and stamps on title and the following two... More
Kispest: Published by the author, 1945. First edition. Softcover. Octavo (7 7/8 x 5 1/2"). 128pp. Original illustrated wrappers, with black lettering to spine, and red and white lettering to front cover. One of the earliest books ever published on Jewish women in Auschwitz and other concentration camps in Germany and... More
Leipzig: Otto Schulze, 1880-1885. Hardcover. Octavo. 11 volumes bound in 7. The following five works are bound in one. 1) Der Midrasch Schir Ha-Schirim. 1881. xii,208pp. 2) Der Midrasch Ruth Rabba. Das ist die haggadische Auslegung des Buches Ruth. 1883. xiii,98pp. 3) Der Midrasch Echa Rabbati. Das ist die haggadische... More
Warszawa: 1922. Hardcover. 4to. clxv, 151, 169, clxxxiv,pp. Three-quarter faux leather over paper-covered boards. Front and rear board and backstrip detached but present. Hebrew lettering in gold on spine. In the early 1920s, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committe financed an economic survey of the Jewish population in Poland to... More
London: Fielding and Walker, 1777. First edition in this translation. Hardcover. Quarto. [4], IV, 5-719, [1], [4], 644, [28]pp (Index). Original half calf over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering on spines. Engraved frontispiece in each volume. Illustrated with 70 fine engravings, including frontispieces, and 8 maps (of which... More
Lodz: Centralna Zydowska Konisja Historyczna W Polsce, [c 1945]. First edition. Softcover. Oblong quarto. [19], 104pp., [15]. Original paper wrappers. Considered as one of the single most important documentary photo books on the Holocaust ever published, this book became the defining collection of photographic images from the period. Illustrated with... More
Jerusalem: The Institute for Computerized Bibliography, 1993-1995. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Part 1: 507 [3] (xvii). Part 2: (xvi) 702pp. Faux red leather boards with gilt lettering and tooling on the front covers and spines. Illustrated endpapers. This massive bibliography of Hebrew printed book from 1469-1863, is still considered the... More
Budapest: Wodianer F. És Fiai Bizománya, 1903, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XLI, [3], 524, XII, 566, [4], 919, [1]pp. Original olive cloth (1st vol.) and black cloth (Vol. II) with gold lettering on spines. Original printed wrappers (Vol. III). This set contains the first 3 volumes of this monumental... More
Krakow: Nadzieja, 1931. Third edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXXII 1-319, [320]-568pp. Volume One only, which is bound in two books. Original brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Decorative endpapers. A foundational text in the academic study of Polish Jewish history. This work is a communal history of the Jews of... More
Warsaw/Lwow: Wydawnictwo Polskiej Unii Zgody Narodów, ca 1938. Softcover. 16mo. 68pp. Printed light blue staple-bound wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover. This scarce publication is a collection of short academic essays and/or statements on the subject of antisemitism in Poland, and in particular in the educational system. The..... More
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 46pp. [31] Plates. Original green cloth with guilded menora and lettering on cover, lettering on spine. Volume one of 4 art historical studies of late antiquity. Chapters on archeological record, paintings, inscriptions of catacomb as well as description of... More
![The old cemetery of the Jews at Prague [SIGNED]. C. Boyè.](/pictures/thumb/34403.jpg?v=1461715641)
Prague: Nakl. Chewra Kadischa, ND. First edition. Softcover. Sextodecimo. 4 pp. Original etchings on card stock housed in decorative gauffred sleeve. 4 original etchings of Israel Horwitz, Hendl Bathschewa, Sara Katz, Der hohe Rabbi Löw's graves at the Prague Jewish Cemetery, all signed by artist. Text in Czech, German, French... More
London: Rodwell and Martin, 1820. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXIV, 623, [1], XVI, 631, [1]pp. Contemporary 3/4 burgundy morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and ruling on spines. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Fold-out frontispiece plan of the Temple at Jerusalem. This rare "Antiquities of the Jews" is... More
Rotterdam: Jan Daniel Beman, 1731. Third edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [16], 548pp. 44pp. plus 4 foldout copper engravings. Original full vellum with black lettering on spine. Half title-page with a series of engravings. In the larger engravings, Moses with the tablets dictating the Torah to a scribe writing on a scroll... More
Basel: Johan Jacob Decker & Ludovici Regis a.k.a. Ludwig König, 1661 & 1629. Third edition & First edition (?). Hardcover. 2 volumes in 1. Vol. I. starting from front, Vol. II. starting from back. 12mo. In Latin. Vol. I: (34) 779p. Vol. II: (32) 462pp. Vellum with handwritten lettering to... More
Leyden: Hendrik van Damme, 1702. First edition with Jan Luyken's engravings. Hardcover. 24mo. [16], 522, 31, [1]pp. Modern half leather over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. Modern endpapers and fly leaves. Additional engraved title depicting a series of engravings. The larger one shows Moses... More
Amsterdam: Uitgegeven in opdracht van het Comité voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen door J. L. Joachimsthal (Published on behalf of the Comité voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen by J. L. Joachimsthal), 1935. First edition. Softcover. Large octavo. 28pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Published by the Comité voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen (Committee for Special..... More
Israel: NP, n/d. Oblong quarto. Bolted blue faux-leather with inlaid b/w reproduction of a photograph of the exterior of the synagogue. Inside of front and back board lined in silk-moire. This unique album was presented to Mr. & Mrs. Harry Burston on occasion of their visit to Israel on October..... More