Philadelphia: Adam Waldie, 1830. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 139pp. Rebound blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Gray endpapers. Isaac Leeser's first printed work in America. Translated from the German of J. Johlson, teacher of an Israelitish School at Frankfurt on the Maine by Isaac Leeser. "The design of..... More
Amsterdam: Yshak de Cordova, 5466 [1706]. Fifth printing. Hardcover. 16mo. 3.5x6". 167pp. (missing final page). Original brown calf boards. The book is a complete Spanish-language translation of the biblical book Song of Songs (Song of Solomon), and Perkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers), the famed collection Jewish ethical sayings taken..... More
Warsaw: Ahi'asaf, 1912. 4to. 584pp. 526pp. 552pp. 597pp. 122pp. Original half-leather over black cloth. Dictionary of terms found in rabbinic literature with quotes from source material. Hebrew and Aramaic words are translated into Russian and Yiddish. The first volume was published in 1884. Samuel Joseph Fuenn was a moderate Russian..... More
London: Facsimile Editions, 1996. Limited edition. Hardcover. Perek Shirah is a cosmic hymn to the Creator in which all of Creation, including the winds, clouds, all species of birds, mammals and fish sing praises for their very existence. It opens with the promise that those who recite it “are assured..... More
Altona, Hamburg: Johann Friedrich Hammerich, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi, 800pp. Bound in brown pebbled half cloth over black pebbled boards. Treatise of Jewish law and observances by Samson Raphael Hirsch, the German Orthodox Rabbi who founded the school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism (Today's modern Orthodoxy) and a vocal..... More
Philadelphia: Adam Waldie, 1830. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 139pp. Rebound blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Gray endpapers. Isaac Leeser's first printed work in America. Translated from the German of J. Johlson, teacher of an Israelitish School at Frankfurt on the Maine by Isaac Leeser. "The design of..... More
![Item #48836 De idololatria liber (A Book on Idolatry) [BOUND WITH] De theologia gentili et...](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/48836.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1647379718)
Amsterdam: Joan and Cornelis Blaeu, 1642. Second edition. Hardcover. Sammelband of two works (jointly issued), the latter in two parts, quarto. [12], 174, [1, errata], [1, blank]; [12], 732 (pp. 353-360 repeated), xvii addenda, [19, index], x addenda, [28, index], [1 emendanda], [1 blank]pp. All four addenda and indices to..... More
Paris: G. Caillou, 1678. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [16], 384pp; 3 unnumbered double-suite engraved plates, with legends in the margins. Engraved printer's device at title. Woodcut head- and tailpieces, lettrines. Text in Latin, with some key terms in Hebrew; printed marginalia. Contemporary calf (rubbed and lightly worn at extremities); spine..... More
Leipzig: Ioh. Frid. Zeitlerum, 1705. Third edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [20], 1504, [82]pp. Original full vellum with gold-stamped lettering and borders on spine. All edges red. Marbled endpapers. Ex-libris of Biblioth. Collegii Carol and ex-libris of Ducis Brunsvicensis et Luneburgensis at rear of front board. Illustrated woodcut vignette on title-page. Decorative..... More
Amsterdam: Hendrick Boom and the Widow of Dirk Boom, 1695. First edition. Hardcover. Two parts, quarto. [8], 154, [2, errata]; 171, [2, variantes lectiones] [1, corrigenda] [2, blank]pp. Title in red and black, with woodcut vignette; half-title for the second part; woodcut lettrines. A dedication to the Burgemeisters of Amsterdam..... More
Frankfurt a. O. Yohanan Kristof Bekman, 1690. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. 4to. 178 leaves. Three quarter red pebbled cloth over black marble boards with gold lettering on spine. Illustrated title page featuring the biblical figures of Aaron and Samuel. This title page is reproduced before Psalms section. Separate title page..... More
Frankfurt: J. Kauffmann, 1903-1932. Annual. Octavo. Original illustrated green cloth with black lettering on cover and spine. Decorative endpapers. Complete set of this organ for scientific discussion of Jewish culture and the history of ideas. Next to the Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums (Monthly for History and Scientific..... More
New York: Printed by William A. Davis, 1797. First American edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 240pp. Rebound in modern brown leather with gilt lettering on cover and spine. The work is British-Jewish scholar David Levi's (1742–1801) defense of the Old Testament, in light of recent attacks leveled at biblical authority and organized..... More
![Item #50647 Moreh li-Tsedakah. Hu Sefer Moreh Nevukhim [BOUND WITH] More Nebochim. Wegweiser für...](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/50647_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1735581195)
Krotoschin [Krotoszyn]/ Vienna/ Frankfurt am Main: Printed by B.L. Monasch/ Jacob Schlossberg's Buchhandlung/ Printed by Ferdinand Hauch, 1839/1864/1838. First German translations. Hardcover. Octavo. 3/4 black morocco over buckram boards. Gilt lettering and ruling on the spine. Red speckled edges of book block. A complete set of the three parts of..... More
London: Longman, Orme, Brown and Longmans, 1838. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. ix, 329, 371pp. Bound in green, pebbled cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Marbled edges. Gray endpapers. With preface by the translator, Vindiciae Judaeorum: or a letter by Rabbi Manasseh Ben Israel, and Mendelssohn's preface to the German translation..... More
![Item #49738 Midrash Bereshit Rabba. [Codex Vatican] MS. Vat. Ebr. 30. With an Introduction and...](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/49738_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1769640158)
Jerusalem: Makor, 1970. First edition thus. Hardcover. Lg. 4to. Title pages in English and Hebrew. (10)pp. Plus 386 pages of Hebrew manuscript facsimiles. Vellum spine over brown buckram, vertical grain red morocco spine label. Edition limited to 135 copies. Published by special permission of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Bereshit Rabbah..... More
Fyorda [Fürth]: Be-vet uvi-defus Itsak ben Leyb B.B., [1773]. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [3] 119 [2] double-sided leaves. Re-bound in modern dark brown soft leather boards with blind-stamped debossed decorative motifs on the front cover. Spine with gilt lettering, blind-stamped motifs and raised bands. Modern endpapers. Title page with decorative..... More
Frankfurt an der Oder: Mikhal Gotshalk, 1699. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 48 leaves. Modern black cloth library binding. Title page contains an image of Jacob being reunited with Joseph in Egypt. (This image is also used by the contemporary Amsterdam printer Joseph Athias in his Bible.) This is a cabalistic..... More
New York: Stanford and Swords, 1847. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (xi) 245pp. Brown cloth boards, with blind stamped ruling on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. The publication was created for the purposes of English speaking non-Jews, and more specifically aimed at Christian missionaries, as a reference and introductory..... More
Frankfurt: Johann Kelner, [1712]. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [1] 143 double-sided leaves. Rebound in modern black buckram boards. Blue and white sticker on the spine with handwritten lettering in black in ink. Gilt ruling to the head and tail of the spine. Decorative woodcut borders on the title page, woodcut..... More
Basel: Ludovici König, 1620. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [12] 324pp. Vellum binding, with remnants of paper labels and black manuscript lettering on the spine. Decorative woodcut printer's device on the title page, as well as a large woodcut initial and decorative headpiece on the first paginated leaf. Intended as the..... More
Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 7 volumes bound in 13. Brown cloth cloth lettered in gilt. A fine, but ex-library set with rubber stamps on title pages & bottoms of text blocks, and library pockets on rear pastedowns. Contents: 1. Documentary forms of the Mishnah --..... More
New York: Philip Cowen, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Each sermon has own unconsecutive pagination. Maroon cloth with decorative gold lettering on front cover. All page edges red. Thick endpapers with floral decorative motif. Inscribed by author on front endpaper dated 1895. Contents include: 1. Bless God for Good as..... More
London & Bournemouth: The Soncino Press, 1951. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-3/4"). 10 volumes. Original blue buckram with gilt publisher's device on cover and gilt lettering on spines. Gilt top edges. Collection of classical Rabbinic literature and commentary organized around the layout of the bible. The Midrash can..... More
![Item #17061 Frucht vom Baum des Lebens/ Ozer Peroth Ez Chajim [Otzar Perot Etz Hayyim]: Die...](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17061.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1428615533)
Berlin, Antwepen: Soncino, 1936. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This copy is inscribed by the author's son at free front endpaper (in Hebrew): "Le-Shoshana Grayb. Le-Maskeret me-Avi Menakhem Menko Hirsch z"l. She-mimeno lamadnu yahad Torah ve-Kabbalah. Avraham. 11th Menakhem-Av 5711. New York." [To Shoshana Grayb. In memory of my father Menakhem Menko..... More