Paris: Antoine Vitré, 1629. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Signed: a4, e2, A-3B6, 3C4 (= 298 leaves). [12], 584pp. Paginated from right to left. Full title and imprint in both Hebrew and Latin, with woodcut printer's device; title within decorative letterpress border; woodcut lettrines and head-pieces; printed marginalia. Text in two..... More

Basel: Johann Froben, 1527. First edition. Paperback. Small quarto: a-z, A-2H4, 2I6 (=222 leaves). [8], 434, [2]pp. Recent wrappers. Mild embrowning at margins, light dampstain at final leaves, else a fresh, clean copy. First edition of Sebastian Münster's Aramaic-Latin dictionary to the Targumim and Rabbinic literature. The first Aramaic dictionary..... More

Leiden: Typographia Erpeniana, 1617. Second complete edition. limp vellum. Two parts, small quarto. A-X4 (lacks S3 = 83 leaves). [8], 132, 135-157, [2, indices and errata], [1, blank] pp. Paginated from right to left. Title within woodcut border; separate title for second part; woodcut lettrines. Text alternating in Arabic and..... More

[Venice]: Apud Ioannem de Gara (Giovanni di Gara), 1587. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. Paginated double sided leaves throughout: 5, [1], 5-62, 238 leaves. Recased in its original period vellum binding, and reinforced with new endpapers. Introductory text in Latin dedicates the book to Pope Sixtus V, and includes his..... More

Basel: Ludwig König, 1639. First edition. Hardcover. Folio in fours: [asterisk in parens]6, A-8N4, 8O6 (= 708 leaves); [12]pp., 2680 columns (1391-1392 omitted; 1997-1998 repeated), [64 = index and emendanda]pp. Engraved portrait; extra engraved title page. Woodcut printer's device at letterpress title; woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials; letterpress ornamentation. Contemporary..... More

Leiden: Joannes Maire, 1624. First edition. Hardcover. Two parts, small quarto. Collation: (a)-(b)4, A-2T4 (= 176 leaves). [16], 332 [i.e. 330, pp.145-146 omitted from pagination; p.149 numbered 145, 153 as 149], [5, elenchus], [1, blank]pp. “Oratio de... Tetragrammato” with caption title. Woodcut printer’s device at title; lettrines, head- and tailpieces..... More

Amsterdam: The widow of Steven Swart / de Boers, 1708. Second edition. Hardcover. 2 parts, quarto. [24], 648, 92; [8], 680pp., extra engraved title; letterpress titles for each part in red and black. Expertly rebound in full vellum boards. Mild embrowning at early leaves, occasional faint dampstain at top margin..... More

London: Richard Bentley, 1851-1854. First edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xvi, 182pp., 6 fold-outs, vi, (6) 300pp., 12 fold-outs,1 sleeve with fold-out. Dark green cloth with blind-stamped ruling and gilt illustration with reverse lettering on front, gilt lettering and blind-stamped ruling on spines, with additional sleeve with gilt lettering on cover..... More

Berlin, Wien: Menorah, 1919-1921. Hardcover. Octavo. 195pp. Red cloth. Contains vol. 1(1-8),vol. 2-10(no. 9-17 all published?). The Hamenorah periodical, published in Berlin and Vienna, was a semimonthly journal in Hebrew (with English Notes) for students of the spoken language. Contains Hebrew exercises, stories, photographs, sheet music and advertisements. Includes photographs..... More

Lublin: K. U. L., 1947. First edition. Softcover. Large octavo. 46, [2]pp. Original printed wrappers. Written by Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (1905-1997), a renown Polish linguist who was interned at Auschwitz during the Nazi-occupation of Poland, this rare and unusual work relates to the linguistic dehumanization of concentration camp inmates. "Język polski..... More

Leipzig: Johann Caspar Meyer, 1691. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 4 leaves, 268pp., 32 leaves, 3 folding tables. Contemporary vellum-backed boards with lettering on spine. Red edges. Title page in Syriac and Latin, printed in red and black with black double border. Historiated headpieces, decorative initials. Grammar of the Syriac language..... More

Basileae (Basel): Ludovici König, 1640. Second edition. Hardcover. Folio (15 1/2 x 10 1/4"). [12], 2680 columns (1440pp), [64]pp (Index). Modern full brown morocco, with gilt-lettered leather label on spine. Raised bands. Decorative head-, tailpieces and initials. Begun by Johannes Buxtorf in 1609, and completed by his son in 1639..... More

Leiden: Samuel and Johannes Luchtmans, 1767. Second Schultens edition. Hardcover. Three parts, quarto. a-r4 s2 t4 (-t4) A-4P4 (= 409 leaves). [14], cxxxii, 301, [302]-603, [1, blank], [68, indices]pp. Engraved printer’s device at title, heraldic cartouche at dedication; woodcut head- and tail-pieces, lettrines; divisional titles at 2C3 and 2P4, register..... More