Bagdad: ca 1870. Manuscript. 38.5" in height. Hand painted with calligraphy and clad in silver at the top. The wooden case is decorated with floral motifs below the pounded silver at the top (keter torah "crown") and its base. A dated inscription in Hebrew is painted onto the front accompanied..... More

Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio (28 1/4" x 23"). [2], 86, [2] p., [10] leaves of plates. Contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon marker. Original wrappers bound in. Decorative head- and tailpiece. Remarkable..... More

[Toledo]: 1572. Manuscript. Small folio. 12 1/4 x 8 1/4". 8 double-sided vellum manuscript leaves originally bound together (now unbound), hand painted and decorated in blue, red and gilt, at various points throughout the text. The first page is hand-painted and decorated along the edge and includes a large decorative..... More

France: NP, 1945. Hardcover. Collection of five items documenting the April 4th, 1945 Passover Seder organized in France for the Jewish soldiers by U.S. Seventh Army Lieutenant Colonel Chaplain Max A. Braude. 1) Braude's typed letter, addressed to "Darling" and dated Friday Afternoon 23 March 1945 enthusiastically recounts the "fun"..... More

New York: Frayhayt, 1926-1936. First edition. This is a collection of 32 issues of "Der Hammer", the Yiddish language Communist weekly, including 28 covers by William Gropper. 11 Issues (Vol.6, February - December 1932) are bound together in a hardcover volume while the other 21 are in the original individual..... More

New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1979. First English language edition. Hardcover. 1/400. Quarto. 93pp (text), 108pp (photographic reproductions). Original linen covered box with title in Hebrew and English on metal plate fixed on top lid. Striking burgundy silk on inside of the box. Casket containing an earthenware jar, 3 facsimile..... More

Wels, Austria: NP, 1945. First edition. Pamphlet. Large quartos. 16, 16, 16, 20, 26, 4, 2pp. Mimographed staple-bound typescript pamphlets. First issue reproduced in facsimile. This scarce weekly journal was produced by liberated Hungarian holocaust survivors at the Alpenjäger camp in Wels, Austria, in the summer of 1945. Printed in..... More

Budapest: NP, 1945. First edition. Softcover. Folio. Unpaginated. [16]pp. Original printed wrappers. Extremely rare document published by the Jewish community of Pest for commemorating Raoul Wallenberg's life saving activities during the Holocaust in Hungary. This work contains an official letter to Wallenberg dated July 2, 1945, and the extract of..... More

Bordeaux: Pierre Calamy, [1721]. First edition. Hardcover. 24mo (6 1/4 x 4"). 88, 8pp. Modern half calf over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. Modern endpapers and fly leaves. Woodblock frontispiece and title page. Decorative headpieces. Rare "Almanach des Dieux" (Almanach of the Gods) for the year..... More

Berchtesgaden: NP, 1937. Original document. Loose leaf. Quarto. Remarkable one page order by Adolf Hitler on official, printed letterhead, blind-stamped with German Eagle and Swastika. The text of the document: "I release the Professor Dr. Friedrich Brie, based on article 4 of the academy-teacher-law of January 21st, 1935 – RGBL..... More

Amsterdam: David de Castro Tartas, 5430 [1670]. First Portuguese Edition. Hardcover. Square octavo. 7 3/4" x 6 1/5". [1 blank leaf], 1-4 leaves, [2 leaves], 5-8 leaves, 9-16pp, 17-23 leaves, [1 leaf], 24-438pp, [2 blank leaves]. Contemporary speckled calf boards with gilt-stamped lettering on the front cover. Spine with gilt..... More