Brescia: Gershom Soncino, 1491. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 8x6". Unpaginated. [1 blank] + 160 double-sided leaves. Rebound in 3/4 red morocco, over pebbled red cloth boards, with gilt ruling on the covers. Gilt stamped motifs, ruling, tooling, and lettering on the spine. Marbled endpapers. Red speckled edges of the book... More about Sefer Ha-Mahbarot [INCUNABLE
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 about Sanson Nazareno, Poema Heroico [FROM THE PERSONAL LIBRARY OF THE MARQUIS OF ALEGRETE, ALFONSO...
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New York: Aroysgegebn fun der Idisher Teater Gezelshaft/ Farlag "Idish kunst-teater" (Yiddish Art Theatre), 1921-1924. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. This collection of Yiddish theater periodicals contains the complete 5 issue run of the Yiddish theater and literary monthly periodical "Tealit: Teater... More about Tealit: Teater un Literatur (#1-5) [WITH] Our Theatre/ Unzer Teater (#1-3) [8 ISSUES BOUND...
Berlin- Kovno (Kaunas): Farlag "Idish" 1921. Second edition. Softcover. Square duodecimo. 6x6.5". 10pp. [1]. Beige cloth wrappers, with printed black lettering and illustrated publisher's devices on the front cover. The cover features one publisher's device designed by Ben-Zion Tsukherman (at the top) featuring a bird and floral motifs and a.... More about Tsu Shpet: A Eynakter (Too Late: A One-Act Play
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 about Shire Shelomo ben Yehudah Ibn Gabirol (The Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol) (2 vols. complete)...
Berlin: Christ. Moritz Vogel; August Wylius, 1763-1769-1767. First edition. Hardcover. Three works bound in one. 12mo. Contemporary paper-covered boards with gold lettered title-label. Text in German, gothic script. 1) Betrachtung ob die Würkung des Mercurri Sublimati corrosivi in den Venerischen Krankheiten innerlich gegeben gegründet sey nebst einer Erwähnung der Cicutae. Berlin..... More about Betrachtung ob die Würkung des Mercurri Sublimati corrosivi in den Venerischen Krankheiten...
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 about Revue d'Histoire de la Médecine Hébraïque 1948-1952; 1953-1956; 1957-1960; 1961-1963. 4 bound...
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 about Le Puits de Jacob
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 about Souvenir of the Decennial Celebration of the Witwatersrand Old Hebrew Congregation, ... and of...
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 about Union Catalog of Hebrew Manuscripts and Their Location. Volume One: Index. Volume Two: Union...
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 about Les Oeuvres de Philon Juif, autheur tres-eloquent, et philosophe tres-grave. Contenans...
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 about Le Puits de Jacob
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 about La Torre de Babilonia (Primera Parte
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 about Sprüche von Lazarus
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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 about Vilnah: Po'emah Metsuyeret [HEBREW
Warsaw: Towarzystwo Wydawnicze "Rój" 1934. Ex-library, First Polish edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 311pp. [9]. Rebound in 3/4 tan cloth over brown paper library binding with black lettering on the spine. Original illustrated wrappers bound in. This is a scarce copy of the first Polish-language edition of I.J. Singer's acclaimed novel... More about Josie Kalb
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 about Sippurim, eine Sammlung jüdischer Volkssagen, Erzählungen, Mythen, Chroniken, Denkwürdigkeiten...
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 about A Gilgul Fun a Nigun: Tsvontsik Holtsshnitn Inspirirt fun der Hasidisher Geshikte
Buenos Aires: Yidbukh, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Large oblong octavo. 31 one-sided leaves. Black buckram over dark green pebbled cloth boards with light green lettering on the front cover. Blind-stamped ruling on the front and back covers. The publication is a collection of three Hasidic folk tales by the acclaimed... More about Dray Hasidishe Dertseylungen/ Drei Chasidishe Dertzeilungen (Three Hasidic Tales
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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 about A Gilgul Fun a Nign [SIGNED]; Metamorphoses d'Une Melodie
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 about Philonos ioudaios syngrammata = Philonis Judaei, omnia quae extant opera, ex... Sigismundi...
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 about Fischke Der Lahme: Bettlerroman
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 about The Jewish Quarterly Review (1888-1908). 20-vols. set (complete) + the Analytical index of the...
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 about Otsar ha-shirah veha-piyut/Thesaurus of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry (Complete in 4 Volumes
Boston: Riverside Press, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. v, 342pp. 257pp. Original green cloth with gold lettering on spine. Gilded top edge. Frontispiece portrait of the author with tissue guard in volume I. Publisher's emblem on title page. A marvelous collection of the writings of Emma Lazarus published posthumously. Volume... More about The Poems of Emma Lazarus in Two Volumes. 2 Volume Set (Complete