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

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

Ruan (Rouen): Laurenço Maurry (Laurent Maurry), 1656. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/2 x 7 1/2"). [12], 338pp. 18th-century full calf, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. All paper edges red. Alfonso Cassuto's bookplate on inside of front cover. Contemporary previous owner's inscription in black ink at... 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

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

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

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

Basel: Hieronymus Froben, 1544. First edition in original Greek. Hardcover. Folio. *6, a-z pp.276, A-Z pp.277-552), Aa-Zz (pp.553-824), AA-MM pp.825-967(1) Nineteenth century mottled calf with gilt tooling and red lettering on red label of spine; six raised bands. Red edges. Decorative endpapers. Illustrated title page printed in red and black... 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