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
Madrid: Isidro Joseph Serrete, 1721-1722-1723-1724-1725. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8 x 5 1/2"). 300pp. Contemporary spotted calf, with gold lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers. All paper edges red. On each title page, engraved vignette of the Spanish Inquisition Seal depicting the cross, the branch and the sword. Decorative head-, and... More
![Schutz-Pass for Alice Rappaport [INITIALED BY WALLENBERG & SIGNED BY DANIELSSON] (with) Letter for Safe Passage for Alice Rappaport [WITH FULL SIGNATURE BY WALLENBERG] (with) Igazolvány megkülönböztet jelzés viselésére kötelezett zsidó személy részére [Work Identification Card for an Hungarian Jew]. Raoul Wallenberg, Carl Ivan Danielsson.](/pictures/thumb/39105.jpg?v=1434442578)
Budapest: Königlich Schwedische Gesandtschaft / Sicherheitspolizei und Sicherheitsdienst (SD) in Budapest - Magyar kir. Rend rség Budapest f kapitánya, 1944. Original document. Loose_leaf. Collection of three poignant documents pertaining to the Holocaust in Hungary, Swedish ambassador Carl Ivan Danielsson, and Embassy Secretary Raoul Wallenberg's efforts to rescue Jews from the... 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
![WW II Passover Archive: Four items from U.S. Army Chaplain Max A. Braude's 1945 Seder Service [UNIQUE]. n/a.](/pictures/thumb/28769.jpg?v=1434441866)
France: NP, 1945. Hardcover. Collection of four items documenting the April 4th 1945 Passover Seder celebration 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... 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
Facsimile Editions, n/d. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. 1/360. Smooth, dark-brown calf with 23-carat gold-tooled edges and cover medallion (Jacob's Dream framed by a escutcheon of bees from a former owner, the Barberini family); gold and blind-tooling on spine. Companion volume bound in white vellum. Seated within leather-edged slip-case covered 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
Warsaw: "Ksiazka ! Sztuka" Publishers, 1919. First trade edition. Softcover. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated. Original illustrated light brown, string bound paper wrappers with brown lettering on cover, illustrations on front and back cover. Illustrated title page. Rare satirical anti-German illustrated work by Szyk with powerful lyric poetic text by Szyk's close... 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
![Jerusalem: Die Alte Haubstat der Jüden, wie sie vor der letzten Zerstörung auff hohem Gebirg, mitten in der Welt, als das Irrdische Paradyß, ein Vorbildt der Ewigen Statt Gottes war. Mit kurzer Historia und Erklärung was Gott von anfang mit disem ort gehandelt was auch die Statt und ein jeder Namen und geschicht für gebildet und bedeutet hab. Und warumb Gott dise Statt sampt ganzem Land durch seinen zorn zum Spiegel aller Welt augestilget und keinen Stein auff dem andern gelassen hab. Figur und Warheit alt un new Testament vergleicht was auch das newe geistliche, ewige und himlische Jerusalem sey. Alles au dem Hebraischen grundt der heiligen Schrifft eröffnet und außgelegt und sampt einer Tafel vn Contrastehtung für die Augen gestellet, dergleichen nie an Tag kommen [with] Jerusalem das irrdisch Paradyss. Hisoriae und und Geschichten was Gott der Herr vom Anfang... [with] Jerusalem, Die Gaistlich himlisch Stat Gottes. Adam Reißner, Adam Reissner Adamus Reisnerus.](/pictures/thumb/18945.jpg?v=1434441409)
Frankfurt a. M. Georg Rabe, Sigmund Feyerabend, & Heirs of Weygand Han, 1565. Second edition. Hardcover. 2 vols. (3 pts.) in 1 vol. Large 4to. [14], CXXV, [1, 12], 6-177, [13] leaves. [4], CCXVI, [1] leaves. Blind-ruled contemporary calf with metal studs and metal clasp settings. Lacking leather clasps &... More
Tel Aviv: NP, 1945. First edition. 4to. Illustrated paper portfolio of ten loose plates, printed in brown-tone photogravure, with explanatory text. Portraits of Jewish people during prewar Poland. Text and captions in Hebrew. Part of a larger publishing project, which was not fully realized due to paper scarcity. Gray and... More
[Budapest]: Unique unpublished manuscript, 1940. Manuscript. Softcover. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated. [108] loose pages, as issued. Original wrappers, with illustration pasted on front cover. This poignant and powerful work is Géza Winter's illustrated poetic diary documenting his personal experiences at labor service* in 1940. Winter was a Hungarian Jew from Budapest... More
![Report on Israel [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY ROBERT CAPA]. Irwin Shaw, Robert Capa.](/pictures/thumb/42255.jpg?v=1495756606)
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950. First edition. Softcover. Quarto (10 1/4 x 7"). 144pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers with white lettering to covers and spine. Title page inscribed and signed by Robert Capa: "To Rona, hoping that he won't have to pay for my Paris hotel bills again. Capa." the... More
Jerusalem: Aryeh Editions, 1997. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/500. Elephant folio. Original full leather with gold lettering on spine and blind-stamped illustration on front cover (Haggadah volume). The companion volume is half leather over grey cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Both volumes are housed in a grey cloth slipcase... More
Zoltsbakh (Sulzbach): Rabbi Meshulam Zalman Frankel, Rabbi Aharon and Rabbi Naftali Frankel, 1755-1763. Hardcover. 11/12vol. Folios. No pagination. vol. 3: Cover seperating from book. Book still firmly bound. vol. 5: 2,5" x 2,5" tear to top of spine vol. 5, vol. 10, vol. 11: Remnant of copper clasp. vol. 10... More
San Francisco: Strictly Limited Editions, 1982. Limited Edition. Hardcover. LIX/CCC. Ten 15 3/4" x 21'" serigraphs resting in large blue cloth portfolio with gold decoration and golden lettering. Serigraphs on arches paper of 270 gr, all color separations produced by the artist, each print signed and titled in pencil by... More
Utrecht: Anthony Schouten; Hermannus Ribbius, 1700. Second edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 6/8 x 8 1/4"). [42], 844, [36]pp (Index), [4], 845-1716, [36]pp (Index). 19th-century half calf over burgundy cloth, with gold lettering and tooling to spines. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Additional engraved allegorical titles by Gilliam van der Gouwen after... More
![Allons-y ! Histoire Contemporaine Racontée & Dessinée (1re partie) [UNIQUE COPY PRINTED FOR FERNAND LABORY, LAWYER FOR ALFRED DREYFUS, AND INSCRIBED TO HIM BY THE AUTHOR]. Henri-Gabriel Ibels.](/pictures/thumb/21729.jpg?v=1434441471)
Paris: P.-V. Stock, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 111pp. Uncut and untrimmed. Contemporary half gilt-ruled burgundy morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling on spine. Marbled endpapers. Original illustrated wrappers bound in. Half-title inscribed and signed by Henri-Gabriel Ibels to Fernand Labori, lawyer and defense counsel... More
![[The Bewitched Tailor]. Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan.](/pictures/thumb/39980.jpg?v=1455686427)
[London]: [Grovesnor Gallery], 1965. Limited First edition. Loose_leaf. 72/85. Folio. Two lithographic title pages (1957 and 1963). Plates resting between two heavy cardboards. Complete collection of Anatoli Kaplan's 40 striking tissue-guarded lithographs illustrating Sholem Aleichem's tale "The Bewitched Tailor," a bitter-sweet allegory of a poor tailor who dreams of having a.... More
Milwaukee: Adolf & Isaac S. Moses & Emil G. Hirsch, 1880–1882. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 1040pp., Vol. 1, Nos. 1-26, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-26, Vol. 3, Nos. 1-18, 20 and 21, total of 65 issues. Bound in 20th century blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Orange endpapers. Zeitgeist (Spirit... More
London: Facsimile Editions, 1992. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/550. Quarto. [322], 175pp. Blind-tooled brown calfskin over boards with rounded corners in original calfskin-lipped hand-marbled slipcase. Companion volume in top edge gilt with deckled fore and bottom page edges. Deckled pages to facsimile volume on thick, uncoated neutral pH vegetable parchment simulating... More
Paris: Société des Etudes Juives, 1880-1953. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. This a incomplete run of 74 volumes of the publication from 1880-1953 (vols 1-114). Missing vols 59-81, 83-84, 87-89, 94-96, 99-100, and 105-111. This is a mixed set with some volumes bound in purple/blue cloth, black cloth, blue buckram, blue... More
![Lilith [SIGNED]. Abagail Stern, text, Bernard Solomon, Illustrator.](/pictures/thumb/35078.jpg?v=1434442228)
Statesboro, GA: The Boxwood Press, 1986. Limited first edition. Hardcover. 1/25. Large quarto. Unpaginated. Original half yellow cloth over paper covered boards, with gold lettering on spine. Illustrated title page. Limitation page numbered and signed by Bernard Solomon. Splendid poetical essay on Lilith, one of the most fascinating legendary figures... More