Lake Success: 1947. Softcover. Large 4to. Original tan paper wrappers with emblem of the United Nations on front wrapper. A collection of documents related to the United Nations partition plan of Palestine in 1947, which led to the establishment of the State of Israel. Volume I consists of the report...
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1837. Fourth edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 400pp. Original decorated brown pebbled leather with elaborate gilt and colored tooling. All edges gilt with yellow endpapers. Enlarged fourth edition of Rev. Michael Russell's combination travelogue and history of Palestine. This work exemplifies 19th century English Protestant fascination with the...
Tel-Aviv: Society for the Establishment of Health resorts in Palestine, ca. 1928. Softcover. Oblong octavo. 42,[2],iiil,pp. Original illustrated wraps protected by modern mylar. Rare booklet looking at health resorts in late 1920's Palestine. "The varied climatic conditions of the whole of Palestine which stretches in its whole length along the...
London: The Religious Tract Society, ND (ca 1875). First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 223, [1]pp. Original black and gilt-stamped full cloth, with gold lettering on spine and front cover. All edges gilt. Dentelles. Engraved tissue-guarded frontispiece. Decorative title-page. Illustrated headpieces. Decorative initials. A remarkable account of a journey through the Holy...
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1851. Hardcover. 4to. 196 pp. Richly tooled full (red) leather with beveled gilt edges. 18 b&w illustrations protected by tissue guards. Travelogue from Egypt through the Holy Land, Jerusalem, Nazareth and Galilee, including Syria (Damascus), Lebanon (Baalbec). Some foxing on first and last pages...
Tel Aviv: N.P., 1939. First edition. Softcover. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated (24pp.). String-tied, tan wrappers with dark blue lettering on front and back covers. The promotional publication showcases the then new Yeshivat Tel Aviv, for the newly settled Mizrachi (Eastern Jews) in the Kfar Avraham neighborhood of Tel Aviv. Included are...
New York: E. Goodenough, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. XII, [13]-408pp. Original 3/4 morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and ruling on spine. Raised bands. All paper edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece portrait of Reverend J. J. Smith. A fascinating and detailed account of the author's voyage through...
London: W. H. Carpenter1820, 1820. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. XXXIX, 501 pp. Brown cloth. Frontis piece with a lovely steel engraved portrait of Joseph Spence. Uncut page edges. The author, Joseph Spence (1699-1768), was an English author and professor most famous for this particular collection of anecdotes that are an...
London: John Murray, 1864. Later edition (Twelfth Thousand). Hardcover. Quarto. LVIII, 560pp. Contemporary gilt-stamped full calf, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. All paper edges marbled. Ribbon markers. Frontispiece. "In 1852 Arthur Penrhyn Stanley travelled to Egypt and Palestine, and produced a best-selling account of...
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1872. Later edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 718pp. Contemporary gilt-stamped full calf, with gold lettering and tooling on spine. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. All paper edges marbled. Frontispiece. Vignette on title. Originally published in 1859, "The Land and the Book" is a captivating account of the...
Tel Aviv: N.P., 1957. First edition. Softcover. Oblong 12mo. 128pp. Blue and white printed wrappers, with star of David. The is the first part of the "Maccabi Album" covering the history of the Maccabi Sports Club in Tel Aviv/ Jaffa, focusing on the years 1906-1925. The second planned volume was...
Le Caire: Editions Al-Maaref, 1953. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. XVI, 280pp. Uncut. Original printed wrappers, with red and black lettering on front cover. An interesting Arab perspective on the historical, political and legal study of the Palestinian conflict and its impact on world politics. Moderate age-toning along edges of wrappers. Text...
Jerusalem: Jerusalem Division for the Diaspora of the Jerusalem Municipality/ International Cultural Center for Youth, 1976. Softcover. Oblong Octavo. 227pp. (+ 23pp). Tan wrappers with gold lettering on cover. Introductory statements by Yosef "J." Goldschmidt, Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy Kollek, Mayor of Jerusalem and Avraham Yekel, Director of the...
Rome: Self-published, 1930. First American edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original blue cloth with Hebrew and English lettering on front board and spine, and illustration laid on front cover. Decorative endpapers. Frontispiece. Fascinating work displaying 265 b/w photographic reproductions of landscapes and portraits of Palestine. Some edge wear on binding with...
New York: American Zionist Emergency Council, 1945. Softcover. Sm 8vo. 84pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Light creasing and some rubbing along spine. A history of the Jewish units in the African campaign 1941-1943. Includes a glossary of Hebrew terms. Overall very good.
Los Angeles: Special Projects Department, Occidental Petroleum Corporation, 1988. Hardcover. Quarto. 42pp. (1). Blue leather boards, with gilt lettering on front cover. This finely produced photo album documents the celebration of the 90th birthday of Jewish-American businessman, philanthropist and art collector Armand Hammer, in Israel. Features a dedication page from...
New York: Random House, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 304pp. Original 3/4 dark blue coarse linen over tan cloth, with gold lettering on spine and golden facsimile of the author's signature on front cover. Top edge gilt. Ribbon marker. Limitation page numbered and signed by the author. First edition of...
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854. Ninth edition. Hardcover. 12mo. XII, 105, [1], 2pp (Advertisement for Rev. Gleig's School Series). Original blind-stamped olive cloth, with blind-stamped lettering on front cover. Hand-colored frontispiece map of Palestine. From the author: "The object of this work is to give a comprehensive and...
New York: G. Lane & P. P. Sandford, 1842. Second edition. Hardcover. 12mo. viii, 300 pp. Half black leather over marbled boards. The book is dedicated by the author to her ..."Female Bible Class, once assembled in Vestry-Street, but now, in the providence of God, scattered far and wide...." Corners...
Jerusalem: Kiryat Sefer, 1981. Revised and expanded new edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Large 8vo. 390pp. 383pp. Colored cloth with red lettering to cover and spine. In original dust jackets. Endpapers illustrated with maps of the Holy Land. Seated in original cardboard slipcase.Great book on legends and tales of the land...
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1926. Hardcover. Lg. 4to. 116pp. Half green cloth over green paper boards. 12 full-page brightly colored plates and frontispiece. Extra illustrations by Cornwell laid in. Expertly rebacked. Otherwise in fine condition.
Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House Ltd., 1973. Hardcover. 8vo. 344pp. Half cloth over paper covered boards with brown lettering to spine. Fascinating study of Mordecai Eliav from Tel-Aviv University, Chaim-Weizmann-Institute of Zionist Studies, on the Jews of pre-Israeli statehood Palestine [a.k.a. the "Yishuv"] in the German Policy during the.....
Paris: Fondation SEFER, [1948]. First edition. Softcover. 12mo. 18, [2]pp. Original printed wrappers. In this remarkable booklet, Edmond Fleg delivers a passionate tribute to the new state of Israel. Wrappers sunned along edges. Age-toning throughout. Text in French. Wrappers and interior in overall good condition. About the author: Edmond Flegenheimer...
Beer Sheva: Merkaz Ha-Negeve Le-Fituah, 2008. Hardcover. Signed. 4to. 333pp. Original paper boards with photograph of downtown Beer Sheva on the front board and a photograph of a house and an apartment building on the back. An in depth collection of articles on the history and present day sites of...
Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 443, [1]pp. Original pictorial dust-jacket over brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. This remarkable work is an illustrated account of the urban and rural development of Jerusalem from the early 19th century when Ottoman Jerusalem was encompassed by...
