Culver City, CA: Labyrinthos, 1990. Deluxe Limited Edition (Out of Series). Hardcover. 1/200, unnumbered. 4to. XXI, [1], 215 pp. on acid-free paper. Original green smyth-sewn clothbound with gold illustration on front cover and gold lettering on spine with ribbon marker and housed in matching slipcase. Fourth volume in the "Sephardic..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XXIX, 425pp. Top edge gilt. Olive-green pebbled cloth with gilt-stamped lettering and decoration on front cover and spine. Top paper edges in gilt. Colored end papers. Frontispiece protected with a tissue-guard. Scarce and fascinating work of which aim..... More
München: Ernst Battenberg, (1968). First edition. Hardcover. Sm. 4to. 92,[2],pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine in original pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with photographic b/w in-text reproductions, as well as one page with several color reproductions of medals, depicting Jewry from the 16th - 20th centuries. Images..... More
New York: American Academy for Jewish Research, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XIV, 274pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine. A valuable compilation drawn from the Muehlhaeuser Reichsrechtsbuch, the Sachsenspiegel, the Dresden Collection of Jury-Court Decisions, the Remissorium Regulae Juris "Ad Decis" and other source records, all in..... More
Culver City, CA. Labyrinthos, 1989. Deluxe Limited Edition. Hardcover. 1/300. XXVIII, 515 pp. on acid-free paper. Original gilt-stamped red smyth-sewn clothbound with gilt illustration on front board and gilt lettering on spine housed in matching slipcase. Red endpapers. Third volume in the "Sephardic Classical Library" series. Two translations of a...... More
Culver City, CA: Labyrinthos, 1993. Deluxe Limited Edition. Hardcover. 1/200. 4to. XVI, 292, 9 pp. on acid-free paper. Original green smyth-sewn clothbound with gold illustration on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. Ribbon marker. Eighth volume in the "Sephardic Classical Library" series. A critical edition of the Ladino Mahzor..... More
Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Webers Verlag (Dr. Albert Ahn), 1916. Softcover. Ex-library. Lg. 8vo. [2],78pp. Original printed wraps. Fascinating study on the history of Polish Jewry. Staining, age wear and creasing on wraps. Parts of backstrip on head and tail of spine missing. Bottom corner bumped and creased throughout..... More
Assen: Van Gorcum, 1970. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi. 208pp. Dark blue cloth with gold lettering to cover and spine. Library circulation number to cover. Fronttispiece. "Various considerations have led to the publication of a complete edition of the 'Livro de Bet Haim'. The manuscripts contains a great deal of material on..... More
Cambridge: University Press, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy. Complete 2 volume set. lxiv, (2), 20pp. vi, 50pp. Original black cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Edited text and commentary on two Genizah documents, fragments of a Zadokite document and the Karaite text the Commandments of Anan, presented..... More
Perugia: Città di Castello (Perugia), 1975. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 342, [2]pp. Uncut. Original printed wraps with red and black lettering on front cover, spine, and title-page. Scarce work on the history of the Jews of Perugia (Umbria), highlighting events like their expulsion from the city in 1485. Ex-library copy..... More
Westmead, Farnborough Hants: Gregg International Publishers Limited, (1969). Hardcover. 8vo. [12],504pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Minor scuffing and staining to boards. Frontispiece. Fascinating work by Johann Caspar Ulrich on Jewish life in Switzerland from the 13th to the mid-18th century. Reprint of the original edition, published in..... More
Köln: M. DuMont-Schauberg'schen Buchhandlung, 1867. First edition. Softcover. Small Quarto. vi, (2) 396pp. Original light green wraps with decorative ruling and black lettering on cover and spine, protected by modern mylar. History of one of the oldest, if not oldest Jewish community in Germany, based on documents of the Cologne..... More
New York: Paragon Book Gallery, Ltd, 1966. Second edition. Hardcover. Short quarto. Part 1: "Historical" viii, 15 pp., [17], 211 pp. Part 2: "Inscriptional"[7], 186 pp. Part 3: "Genealogical" [9], 228 pp. Original white and blue dust jacket, front cover with blue and red Chinese lettering along with with burgundy..... More
London: The Jewish Historical Society of England. Printed for the Society by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co., 1926. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. xliii, 274pp. 1 folding map. Original printed wraps. "The following pages contain a Calendar of the Jewish Cases recorded in the Bute Collection of MSS. formerly belonging to the..... More
München: C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1960. Neue Folge. Softcover. 8vo. [8],544pp. Original wraps. Front wrapper detached but present. Creasing, pulling and age toning to wraps. Pages unopened as issued. Volume XVIII of the series "Quellen und Erörterungen zur Bayerischen Geschichte. Herausgegeben von der Kommission für bayerische Landesgeschichte bei der Bayerischen..... More
Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Sm. quarto. 493,61pp. Green paper-covered boards with gold lettering on cover and spine, gold-lined black title-label. Collection of 29 studies by various scholars on the history of Jewish society in the Middle Ages and the Modern Period. Main text..... More
New York: Gershon I. Gelbart Memorial Fund, 1964. Softcover. 8vo. xi, 458pp. Original light gray printed wrappers. Facsimile reproduction of a dissertation by Gershon I. Gelbart, left unpublished upon his death in 1959. Offers an introduction and English translation of part three of Samuel Usque's Consolation for the Tribulations of..... More
Krakow: Polska Akademia Umiejetnosci, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Short quarto. 286 pp. Pictorial paper covered boards. Book is fully annotated with an index. Consists of transcriptions of original records from Cracow during the middle ages, all of which are in Latin. Includes an introduction in both Polish and English. Book..... More
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xviii. Hebrew and English. English 422 pp, Hebrew 164 pp. Beige cloth in original printed dust jacket. Scholarly edition of a classic medieval Jewish anti-Christian text. Responds to Christian uses of Old Testament passages and uses the New..... More
New York: Bloch Publishing Company, (1962). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo.182pp [English]. 98pp. [Hebrew]. Red cloth with gilt lettering on front board and spine. Translation and original Hebrew of book by the famous sixteenth century Jewish banker, Yehiel Nissim Da Pisa. Gilbert S. Rosenthal provides a translation along with an introduction..... More
Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House Ltd., 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy. 4to. 294pp. Original brown cloth with black lettering on cover and spine. Hebrew and English title-pages. A collection of essays by leading Judaic studies scholars in honor of the late bible scholar Gedaliahu Alon. Includes essays on the rabbinic..... More
Erfurt: U. Bodung=Verlag, 1941. First edition. Softcover. Octavio. 91(3)pp. Original cream wraps with Star of David and black lettering on cover, black lettering on spine. Frontispiece photograph. With appendix by E. R=r "Die Machtstellung der Juden in Schweden," previously published in "Den Svenske Nationalsocialisten" in 1936. Work on Jewish emigration..... More
Culver City, CA: Labyrinthos, 1990. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. XXI, [1], 215 pp. on acid-free paper. Original green smyth-sewn clothbound with silver illustration on front cover and silver lettering on spine. Fourth volume in the "Sephardic Classical Library" series. Lazar's edition of Kuzari is based on the only surviving Ladino..... More
Culver City, CA. Labyrinthos, 1989. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 1/300. XXVIII, 515 pp. on acid-free paper. Original silver-stamped red smyth-sewn clothbound with silver illustration on front board and silver lettering on spine. Third volume in the "Sephardic Classical Library" series. Two translations of a popular post-biblical book of epic and romance..... More
Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 410pp. Pictorial dustjacket over original illustrated green cloth. White lettering on front and spine. Illustrated endpapers depicting map of France. Heavily illustrated with black and white reproductions of photographs. Text in French and some Hebrew. Dustjacket and book in fine..... More