![Item #17781 Megillat Esther [MANUSCRIPT]. n/a](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17781.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1462940401)
Palestine: Bezalel, circa 1920s. Hardcover. 21.5 inches (top to bottom of spindle). 14 inches (scroll case). Burled olive wood case spectacularly carved with depictions of Rachel's tomb and the old city of Jerusalem, and ringed with four multicolored inlay mosaics. The words Jerusalem (yerushalem without the final yod), Kever Rachel..... More
Seattle: McDonald & Co., Inc, 1961–1972. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong Quartos. 26, 31, (2) 38, 4 (2) 5-10 (2) 11-15 (1) 16-22 (1) 23-27 (1) 28-34 (1) 35-40 (2) 41-43 (1) 44-46 (1) 47-52 (2) 53-56 (2) 57-64, 33, 29, 25, (1) 25, 28, 28, 29, 25 (1). Original illustrated..... More
Israel: 1945. Hardcover. Oblong octavos. 8 1/4x 12 3/4". A combined total of 415 single-sided leaves (mostly unpaginated). Bound in modern 3/4 brown cloth over tan mottled paper boards. Notebook #1: 60 unpaginated leaves. Notebook #2: 37 unpaginated leaves. Notebook #3: 61 paginated leaves. Notebook #4: 34 paginated leaves. Notebook..... More
Krakow: NP; "Miastoprojekt" 1953; 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Collection of two architectural work on the new Polish city of Nowa Huta, a masterpiece of Soviet social planning, and the brainchild of architect Tadeusz Ptaszycki. Nowa Huta is one of only two entirely pre-planned socialist realist cities ever built (the other..... More
Budapest: Pallas RT Nyomása És Kiadása, ca. 1931. Softcover. Folio. 8 leaves, 32 plates. Original tan boards in original wraps with photomontage and red and white lettering on front, illustration and white lettering on back cover; protected by modern mylar. Title page with modern typography and design in black and..... More
Milano: Casa Editrice I. R. A. G., 1927. First printing. Hardcover. Folio (13 1/4 x 9 3/4"; 33.5 x 25cm). Unpaginated. [126]pp (Text), [18] leaves (Plates). Original gilt-stamped burgundy crushed morocco, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Moire endpapers. Fly leaf inscribed and signed by the author to..... More
[Leipzig]: NP, ND (ca 1916). Original artwork. Hardcover. Folio (18 1/2 x 14 1/4"). [7] leaves (Portfolio #1); [11] leaves (Portfolio #2). Original string bound half burgundy cloth over marbled paper covered boards with illustrated title pasted on front covers, and printed title laid on spines. Max Seliger's personal bookplate..... More
Warsaw: "Ksiazka ! Sztuka" Publishers, 1919. First trade edition. Softcover. Oblong Octavo. Unpaginated (32pp.). Original illustrated light brown string bound wraps with brown lettering on cover, illustrations on front and back cover. Illustrated title page. Rare satirical illustrations of anti-German work by Szyk with powerful lyrical text by Szyk's close..... More
Cincinnati: Bloch & Co., 1868. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 263pp. Period burgundy cloth boards with blind-stamped tooling and ruling on the covers, gilt lettering and tooling on the spine. Edges of book block gilt. Published as the final piece of his magnum opus project for American-Jewish liturgy titled "Minhag America"..... More
Tokyo: Shashin Tsushinasha, [1979]. First edition. Softcover. Oblong quarto. Photo-illustrated glossy wrappers with red lettering on the cover, black lettering on the spine. With original publisher's tan obi. Signed by Ann Tucker, the Houston Museum of Fine Art Curator, in pen on the interior front wrapper. This is a beautiful..... More
Tucson, Arizona: Nazraeli Press in association with Hemphill Fine Arts and "Joy of Giving Something, Inc., 2005. Limited Deluxe Edition. Hardcover. Hand numbered 3/10 and signed by Mills on limitation page. Large Quarto in black wooden box (14 3/4 x 12 x 1 1/2"). Unpaginated (1) 13 (2) leaves). Original..... More
Oldenburg: NP, ND. Original artwork. Loose leaf. Unique collection of 44 fully rendered aquarelles for stained glass windows, with 21 signed or initialed by the artist and dated, 5 armorial blueprints, sketch and gouache, 2 original paintings, 12 documents (letters, exhibition catalogues, celebratory programs from various decorative arts associations), and..... More
London: Printed by T. Bensley for R. Bowyer, 1814. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Full brown calf rebacked with original spines laid down. Gold-tooling on spines and along borders of covers. Gold lettering on spines. Raised bands. Dentelles. All edges gilt. Binding signed by Clarke & Bedford. Marbled endpapers. Engraved half-titles..... More
Paris: H. Fleury (Catalogue); Arts et Métiers Graphiques (First Supplement), 1905 (Catalogue raisonné); 1948 (First supplement). Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/370. Folio (14 1/2 x 11"). 356, [4]pp (Vol. 1); 395, [3]pp (Vol. 2); 400, [2]pp (Vol. 3); 404, [4]pp (Vol. 4); 70, [2]pp (Vol. 5). 1/550. Folio (15 1/4..... More
![Item #42986 The Temple of King Sethos I at Abydos (complete in 4 vols.) [INCLUDING 231 PLATES]....](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/42986.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1502756052)
London/Chicago: The Egypt Exploration Society/University of Chicago Press, 1933-1958. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant Folios. Vol.1: (xi) 40 plates. Vol.2: (ix) 46 plates. Vol.3: (xi) 65 plates. Vol.4: (xviii) 80 plates. Vol.1 still retains its brown paper dust jacket. Tan cloth boards with gilt-stamped hieroglyphic illustrations on the front covers, and..... More
Prague: 1880. Original document. Hardcover. Elephant Folio (16 1/2 x 12 1/2"). Six leaves with gilt edges. Original cream leather with massive, raised ornamental mounted decorative "E" (Empress Elisabeth of Austria, 1837–1898) underneath an intricate crown, both gold plated. These placed in the center atop a floral metal decor, within..... More
Aue, Saxony: Paul Baumann, (1912). Boxes. Four boxes with flap lids (3 x 5 1/4 x 3 1/4"). Original green paper-covered flap lid boxes with silver lettering on top cover and side flap. The four boxes contain a total of 1325 color tone cards (2 7/8 x 4 5/8") with..... More
London: Printed by Richard Field [and Gabriel Simson], for William Young, 1596. First edition. Softcover. Small quarto. [asterisk]4, A-K4, (2nd) H4, L-P4, 68 leaves. [136]pp., 3 (of 4) engraved plates. Woodcut anchor device at title; printed marginalia; woodcut lettrines. English text in black letter, italic, and roman type, some Hebrew..... More
München: 1930/40s. Loose leaf. Three original architectural plans (21 x 29") of the Scholten house in Munich-Bogenhausen, Pienzenauer Strasse, ground floor, cellar and attic, signed by the architects Roderich Fick and Paul Gedon, June 1937, a working plan of the attic (18 x 31") and an unidentified, original design drawing..... More
Avignon: Antoine Offray, 1781. Original document. Broadside. Elephant folio (14 6/8 x 34 6/8"). Large engraved seal (3 6/8 x 2 6/8") of the Avignon archdiocese at upper margin. Broadside framed in a 17 1/2 x 37 1/2" wooden frame manufactured by Mori, in Hollywood. This original 18th-Century anti-Semitic broadside..... More
Utrecht: Anthony Schouten; Hermannus Ribbius, 1700. Second edition. Hardcover. Folio (15 6/8 x 10 2/8"). [42], 844, [36]pp (Index), [4], 845-1716, [36]pp (Index). Contemporary blind-stamped vellum, with gold lettering and tooling to spines. Raised bands. Additional engraved allegorical titles by Gilliam van der Gouwen after Wilhelmus Goeree and Philip Tideman..... More
NP: NP, 1862-1941. First edition. Hardcover. The Havestadt & Contag engineering/architecture firm was founded in the early 1880's by Max Contag and Christian Havestadt. The company became famous for large projects such as the building of the Teltowkanal, expansion of the Rhein river between Wesel and Bodensee, the Klodnitzkanal, Bonner..... More
Prague: AIZ, 1933. Original artwork. Copper plate for gravure printing. 26 x 18.5 cm. This motif was rendered by John Heartfield three months after he emigrated to Prague in June 1933. The image depicts an SA-Officer screwing wooden boards to the ends of a cross carried by Jesus, creating thus..... More
Vienna: 1901. Loose leaf. 8.5x11". Carbon copied letter (in blue ink) from Theodor Herzl to an unnamed colleague, asking for financial (or material) support for the continued publication of the vernacular edition of his leading German-language Zionist Newspaper "Die Welt" (The World). The document is signed at the bottom by..... More
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Leipzig: W. Drugulin, (1920). Vorzugsausgabe. Limited (numbered) edition. Hardcover. 1/120. Elephant folio. VIII, 103,[2]pp. & 13 unnumbered illustration pages. Gold-stamped full green calf with gold lettering on cover and spine in original dust wrapper and sturdy paper-covered green clamshell box. Gold-lined raised bands. All deckled edges. Inside of front and..... More