Louisville: Flexner Brothers, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 24mo. XIII, [1], 138pp. Contemporary half black cloth over marbled paper covered boards. "With this little book, the author attempts to bring the basal moral and religious ideas of Yahvism or Jehovism into clear view, and to trace their origin back to the..... More
Philadelphia: The F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1900. Hardcover. 8vo. x, 346pp. Original green cloth with blind-stamped borders and gold lettering on the spine. Frontispiece illustration of a Hebraic circumcision from a 16th century Italian print. A history of circumcision that takes a highly sympathetic view of the practice and..... More
Philadelphia: The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 1923. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 128pp. Brown cloth with blind-stamped borders and gilt lettering to spine. Title-page contains the publisher's emblem. An apologetic analysis of working conditions in ancient Israel using the Bible. Focuses on the specific Hebrew terms used for various..... More
Jerusalem: Israeli Law Review Association, 1966. Hardcover. 4 volumes in 1. Large 8vo. 674pp. Serial publication, bound in blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. Minor age wear. Text in English. Very good condition. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii,[2],315,[1]pp. Black cloth with gold lettering and printer's device on spine in original dust jacket. Frontispiece b/w photographic reproduction of a document signed by Karo. A definitive biography of Joseph Karo (1488-1575), one of the most influential and important figures of rabbinic..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Hermon Druckerei, n/d. Hardcover. Ex-library. 213,[3]pp. Tan cloth with green lettering on cover. Ex-libris of Dr. Harris Hirschberg of the Hebrew Union College on inside of front board, blind library stamp on title-page. Rare edition of biblical dietary laws by Dr. Rabbi Wolf of Cöln (Cologne). Age..... More
London: Hamadfis, 1955. softcover. Quarto. Original light-brown wrappers with black ruling and title on cover. Handwritten inscription by previous owner Mrs. J. Zinober. Full page manuscript regarding p. 147 at verso of free end paper. The first book contains legal discussions on matters of kashruth, the permitted carriage area on..... More
New York: KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXXIV, 259, [1]pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. This remarkable volume on Jewish law in ancient and modern Israel contains the following essays: The secularization of divine law, by H. H. Cohn; The..... More
Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XII, 189, [7]pp. Original cloth with gold lettering and ruling on spine and front cover. In this work, the author examines the rabbinical elaboration of the biblical law of the woman who is suspected of adultery, as given in the Book of..... More
Cincinnati: Bloch. Softcover. Ex-library. 8vo. 102pp. Paper wrappers. Essay on Jewish historiography. Author discusses different philosophies of Jewish history from the Bible, rabbis, the middle ages and the rise of the modern study of the field in the 19th century under Zachariah Frankel and S. D. Luzatto. Wrappers chipped. Library..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Hermon-Druckerei, 1929. Second edition. Softcover. Octavo. [6], 115, [3]pp. original illustrated wraps. Second edition of this scarce work on the educational work of law-abiding Jewry. Some age wear on wraps with 4.5" closed tear on lower front joint. Spine and edges of covers darkened. Fore-edge of front..... More
New York: Hermon Press, (1974). Second, augmented edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 54,34,[6],pp. Illustrated tan cloth. This monograph by Dr. Moses Gaster (1856-1939) was first published in 1923. The second edition has been edited with a new introduction and notes by Samuel Gross. The 8 illustrations of the original edition have been..... More
London: The Bibliophile Press, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [4], 59, [1]pp. Cloth spine over paper covered boards. An authority on the legal status of English Jews, Henriques (1866-1925) was the author of "The Jews Return to England" (1905), "The Jews and the English Law" (1908) and several historical and..... More
London: The London Board for Shechita, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 88 pp. Red cloth with black lettering on front cover and spine in original decorative dj. Frontis piece. Illustrated with a number of b/w facsimile photographs and sketches. Interesting work on the history of the London Board concerned with..... More
New York: Cornwall Books, 1989. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/500. Quarto. 368pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Limitation page inscribed and signed by the author. In this remarkable work, brief profiles of each poet accompany a collection of 370 poems by 133 Yiddish poets..... More
Berlin: M. Poppelhauer, 1912. Zweite, erweiterte Aulage (Second revised edition). Softcover. Ex-library. 8vo. 40pp. Original printed wraps. Commentary on the Shulchan Aruch by A. Liebermann. The Shulchan Aruch is a codification, or written halacha (Code of Jewish Law), composed by Rabbi Yosef Karo in the 16th century. Together with its..... More
Basel: S. Karger, 1968. Second edition. Softcover. Octavo. 208pp. Original printed wrappers. Second edition of Maimonides' work on the hygiene of the body and the soul. Wrappers age-toned. Text in German. Wrappers in overall fair, interior in very good condition. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. 8vo. xvii, 299pp. Maroon cloth with gold decoration on spine in original printed dust jacket. The five treatises in this eleventh book of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah are mainly concerned with civil and criminal law. Edited by Julian Obermann. Translated from..... More
New York: Hermon Press, 1968. Second Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 270pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Reprint of a late 19th century work offering an overview of Talmudic criminal law. Covers crime and punishment, the Supreme Court of the Sanhedrin, trials and executions. Lettering on spine faded..... More
New York: (Yeshiva University), 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (7) preface, table of contents, foreword and memorial, 168pp. [English], (3), 633pp. [Hebrew]. Original half red cloth over gray decorative paper boards. Frontispiece b/w photograph of Abraham Weiss. Collection of essays published in honor of Abraham Weiss. Topics cover rabbinic literature..... More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XVIII, [2], 262pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Publisher's logo on front board and title page. This is the first of a five-part presentation of the Mishnaic law of Holy Things - that is, matters..... More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXXI, [1], 302pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Publisher's logo on front board and title page. The problem of this book is to describe the history of the laws of the Mishnah-tractates surveyed in the..... More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XVIII, [2], 262pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Publisher's logo on front board and title page. This is the second of a five-part presentation of the Mishnaic law of Holy Things - that is, matters..... More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. IX, [3], 338pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Publisher's logo on front board and title page. Kelim (literally "Vessels") is the first tractate in the Order of Tohorot in the Mishnah. It contains thirty chapters..... More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XII, [2], 110pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Publisher's logo on front board and title page. Devotion to the study of the Babylonian Talmud, a document of law and theology completed in the seventh century..... More