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
Tel-Aviv/Berlin: Dvir, 1924-1925. First edition. Hardcover. Quartos. Vol.1: (xvi) 174pp. Vol.2: (xii) 156pp. Green cloth boards with blind-stamped lettering and motif on the front covers. Gilt lettering and motifs on the spines. Decorative endpapers. Signed and inscribed by acclaimed Hebrew poet Hayim Nachman Bialik and his longtime collaborator Yehoshua Hana..... More
Tel Aviv: Book Bureau of the Union of Hebrew Writers and Literature, 1926. First edition. Softcover. Small folio. 110 columns (in Hebrew numbering) + 9 pages. Tan printed wrappers with avant-garde typography ("Haim" font) on the front cover in red. Typography designed by the acclaimed Hungarian-born graphic designer, painter and..... More
Paris: Société d'Histoire de la Médecine Hébraïque, 1948-1963. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Original tan cloth with gold lettering on spines. Original wrappers bound in. Complete collection of all the 62 issues published during the first 16 years of the "Revue d'Histoire de la Médecine Hébraïque." Each issue contains important studies..... More
Paris: Albin Michel, 1927. Limited edition. Softcover. 1/300. Octavo. [6], IV, [4], 323, [3]pp. Uncut. Original glassine over printed wrappers. Book housed in its original paper covered chemise, with string tie. Title page color vignette. In this delightful French novel, a young woman rediscovers her Jewish heritage, becomes a Zionist..... More
Johannesburg, South Africa: Printed by M. J. Wood & Co. for The Council of The Congregation, 1898. First edition. Softcover. Large octavo. 36pp. Original decorative wrappers. In the 1880s, Johannesburg was the largest city in the Transvaal and the principal center of Jewish life in South Africa. On Jan. 29..... More
New York: American Academy for Jewish Research, 1964-1973. First edition. Hardcover. The "Union Catalog of Hebrew Manuscripts and Their Location" is comprised of two volumes: - Volume One: Index (1973). Folio. XXXIV, 280pp. Original full green cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Index by Menahem Hayyim Schmelzer; Introduction by Salo Wittmayer..... More
Cincinnati: The Bloch Printing Company, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 57pp. [3]. Original black cloth over beige soft paper boards with black lettering on the front cover. A charming short story for young adults collected from the pages of the American Jewish youth literary magazine "The Sabbath Visitor" (1874-1885, also..... More
Paris: Michel Sonnius, 1588. Early edition. Hardcover. 12mo (7 x 4 3/4"). [8], 528, [32] leaves. Contemporary full vellum with handwritten title to spine. Publisher's title vignette. Decorative headpieces and initials. Originally published in 1575, this first French language edition of the works of Philo, a first-century Alexandrian philosopher known..... More
Paris: Albin Michel, 1927. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/300. Octavo (8 x 6"). [6], iv, [4], 323, [3]pp. Later blue cloth, with gold lettering and ruling to spine. Original wrappers bound in. Color vignette to title page. In this remarkable French novel by celebrated author Pierre Benoit, a young woman rediscovers..... More
Amsterdam: Ishak de Cordova (Yshak de Cordova), 1726. "Nuevamente Reimprimido" (Reprint). Hardcover. Folio. 13.5x8.5". 142pp. Original tan calf boards. Title page decorated and bordered with woodcut motifs. The work, original publisher in Rouen, France in 1649, and containing a mixture of prose and poetry, "La Torre de Babilonia" (the Tower..... More
Leipzig: Kommissionsverlag von Eduard Heinrich Mayer, 1899. Softcover. WITH ORIGINAL THREE-PAGE LETTER BY NAHIDA RUTH LAZARIUS, dated 12 April 1900. Ex-library. Library stamp in Hebrew on margins of few pages (transliteration "Haikhal Shlomo - Ha-Sifriah _?_ Ha-Merkazit L'Yisroel Yerushhalayim"). 8vo. viii, 213pp. Original gold-stamped and illustrated blue wraps protected by..... More
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Berlin: Hasefer, (1923). First edition. Hardcover. 1/1700. Quarto. 32pp. Original gold- and silver-stamped black cloth with gilt and silver lettering on front cover. This beautiful vocalized poem is complete with its ten full-page sepia-toned reproductions of drawings executed by Herman Struck during the First World War, while stationed in Vilna..... More
Prag: Eigentum und Verlag von Wolf Pascheles (Self-published), 1854-1870. Hardcover. 5 volumes in 6. 8vo. Erste Sammlung (First collection): 1870. 224pp. Vierte Auflage (fourth edition). Zweite Sammlung: 1870. 252,[4]pp. Dritte Sammlung: 1854. 254,[2]pp. Vierte Sammlung: 1856. 362,[5]pp. Fünfte Sammlung, Erste Abtheilung: 1864. 192pp. Fünfte Sammlung, Zweite Abtheilung: 1864. 382,[26]pp. Three-quarter..... More
Paris: 1948. Limited Edition. Softcover. 1/1126. Inscribed by author. Folio. 25 leaves, plus 20 woodcut plates. Tissue paper guards. Original paper wrappers bound in cloth folder. Complete with slipcase. A collection of short stories by the 19th century Yiddish writer Y. L. Perets dealing with Hasidim. This special edition was..... More
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Paris: Arthur Kolnik, 1948. Hardcover. Limited edition of 226 copies on Lana paper. No. 51. Folio. [5], 25 pp., 20 pl. [4]. Portfolio resting in tan cardboard slipbox with gold lettering on spine. Book cover with red text, protected by glassine, as issued. Titlepage in red and black block lettering..... More
Lutetiae Parisiorum (Paris): [Compagnie de la Grand-Navire], 1640. New edition. Hardcover. Folio (14 1/4 x 9 1/2"). [12], 1200, [70]pp. Uncut. Modern full blue morocco, with gold lettered leather title label on spine. Raised bands. Title page in red and black lettering. Striking large engraved title vignette (6 1/4 x...... More
Berlin: слово (Slovo), 1927. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 335pp. [1]. Tan textured heavy stock paper wrappers with blue lettering on the front cover. This is the true first edition of Vladimir Jabotinsky's biblical novel, Samson the Nazirite (Samson Nazorei) published in Russian. Originally serialized from 1919-1926 in the pages of..... More
Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1978. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. 174pp. 1 of 50 copies published by C. Hanser in Munich. With an original etching. Blue cloth with silver lettering on spine in original printed illustrated dust jacket, housed in a cardboard slip case. Novel by the nineteenth century Yiddish..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1888-1908. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Uniform modern library blue cloth, with gold lettering on spines. This is a complete and fascinating set of the famous Jewish Quarterly Review, First Series, published between 1888 and 1908. IT IS NOT THE REPRINT EDITION OF 1966. It was edited..... More
New York: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1933. Hardcover. 1/500. 4 volumes. 4to. lxviii.418pp. xiv.490pp. xii.544pp. xviii.500pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering to cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Vol. 1 has a pamphlet laid in with b/w facsimile photographs of Professor Israel Davidson and his..... More
London: Greenberg & Co., 1903. Hardcover. Ex-library. 4to. 94pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Title written in Hebrew, English, German, Russian, French and Italian. B/w frontispiece with tissue guard. Plates (portraits) of 18th and 19th century Jewish poets. Text in Hebrew and English. Corners bumped..... More
London and Berlin: Asher & Co., 1870. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. XIII, 146 pp. in English + XV in Arabic + 132 pp. in Hebrew. Red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Signature of the late Leon J. Leibreich, the influential Professor of Theology at Hebrew Union College, who has..... More
Berlin: Erich Reiss Verlag, 1921. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/750. Octavo. xxii, 121pp. Original gold-stamped vellum with laced-in slips, gold decorated spine and red title-label with gold lettering. Top edge gilt. A collection of 107 fables drawn from Greek, Jewish, Hindu and Arab narratives exploring moral values and the meaning of..... More
Buenos Airies: Elisheva, 1936. First edition. Softcover. Duodecimo. 7x 5 1/4". 188pp. [4]. Illustrated beige, green and black wrappers, with black and green lettering on the front cover. Includes both Yiddish and Spanish-language title pages. This work examines the history of Yiddish theater pioneer Abraham Goldfaden (1840-1908), and his collaboration..... More