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...
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...
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.....
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.....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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