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
Berlin: Self-published (Privatdruck, printed by Trowitsch & Sohn), 1833. TRUE first edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 608pp. Green cloth, black leather title-label with decorative gold border and gold lettering. Binding protected by modern mylar. Frontispiece of Rahel, engraved by C. E. Weber. Four lines of Rahel's handwriting in facsimile below engraving. Title-page... More
Moravska Ostrava: Verlag von Julius Kittls Nachfolger, 1938-1961. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. This is the complete run of the series in 23 vols, from 1938-1961. Vols 1-14 and 17-20 in blue cloth with gold lettering on spine (1938-52 &1955-58), vols 15-18 in red cloth with gold lettering on spine (1953-56)... More
Kaunas: S. Neumano (S. Neumann), 1920. First edition. Paperback. Octavo. 31, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Stamp of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on title page. Published by the Jewish National Council of Lithuania, this scarce work compiles materials relating to the Lithuanian Jewish autonomy granted in 1920 by the Ministry... More
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NP, n/d. Hardcover. Ex-library. 1 quarto & 3 octavo volumes. Original bulletins bound in matching red library buckram with gold lettering on spine. Vol. I: Sep. 1956 - Feb. 1960. Vol. II: Apr. 1960 - Jan. 1962. Vol. III: Jan. 1963 - Nov. 1964. Vol. IV: Feb. 1965 - Sept... More
Leipzig: Wilhelm Braumüller, 1912-1917. Softcover. 4to. 2 vol. Original gray paper cover. A two volume history of the Jews in Vienna, Austria. The first volume covers the time period of 1540-1670, and the second from 1696-1783. Each volume is illustrated with in-text images of the gravestones and inscriptions. Contains folded... More
London: G. S. Tregear, 1823. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. viii, 70pp. plus 19 prints. Quarter purple cloth over brown cloth with printed cover label. Frontispiece aquatint illustration. First published in 1803. Description of Palestine and Lebanon at the turn of the 18th century. Includes chapters on Acre, Sidon, Beirut, Mount... More
London: NP, 1787. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [68], 130pp. Original spotted calf with gold lettering and tooling on spine. Marbled endpapers and paper edges. Decorative head- and tailpieces. Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791) was a leader of the early stages of the French revolution. A noble, before 1789... More
Belgrade: The Federation of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia, 1970-1987. First edition. Softcover. Octavos. Illustrated wrappers, some glossy, with black lettering on front covers. This is a run of the periodical, including May-Oct. 1970, Jan-Feb. 1972, Nov-Dec. 1972, May-June 1973, July-Oct. 1974, Jan.-Apr. 1975, July-Oct. 1975, Nov.-Dec. 1976, July-Aug. 1977, Mar.-Aug... More
Warsaw: Nakl. Wydawn. "Zydzi w Polsce Odrodzonej" [1932-1933]. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 574, [2], 617, [15]pp. Original three-quarter black cloth over blue cloth with gold lettering on spines and front covers. History of Jews in modern Poland that ironically celebrates the rebirth of post World War I Jewish culture only... More
Mannheim: Herbert Tannenbaum, 1916. First edition. Softcover. Large Quarto. 8pp. Original illustrated cream wraps with black lettering on cover. Brief introduction into design and building of gravestones for graves of Jewish soldiers. Issued in agreement with Rabbis of the armies of the West during W.W.I pointing out that graves of... More
Jerusalem: State of Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. xxviii,127pp. Dark blue mottled oil cloth ledger binding with two metal bolts. Compiled by Arieh Shahar, Uzi Paran, Arieh Bittan, with a preface by Professor R. Bachi, the Government Statistician. Details every administrative area of Israel at... More
Warszawa: 1922. Hardcover. 4to. clxv, 151, 169, clxxxiv,pp. Three-quarter faux leather over paper-covered boards. Front and rear board and backstrip detached but present. Hebrew lettering in gold on spine. In the early 1920s, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committe financed an economic survey of the Jewish population in Poland to... More
Lwow: Nakladem Funduszu Konkursowego Imienia Hip, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. xxiii, 577pp. 188pp (documents, tables and Index). Rebound in red cloth. The author helped found the study of Polish Jewish in the early 20th century. Despite being home to the world's largest Jewish population, this field had largely... More
Leipzig: Druglin, (1923). First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 23pp. (1), plus 7 b/w prints. Original quarter vellum over green cloth. Youthful essay by the future third president of the State of Israel Zalman Shazar (Rubashov) on the infamous eighteenth century messianic claimant Jacob Frank. Frank led a large number of Jews... More
Paris: Editions D'Histoire Sociale, 1968. Limited edition. Softcover. 1/750. 8 volumes. 8vo. Black decorated gray wrappers with black lettering to cover and spine. Small stain to cover in vol.I. Minor creasing to wrappers on all volumes. Vol.I: 64,130pp. Sur Moses Mendelssohn, sur la reforme poitique des Juifs, 1787 par Le... More
Lwow: Nakladem Towarzystwa, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 99pp. Original paper wrappers rebound in half cloth over red marble paper boards. Guide to the Jewish Quarter, its history and monuments. The author was a pioneer in the study of Polish-Jewish history in the early 20th century, a field neglected by... More
Warsaw: Y. Goldman, 1887. Hardcover. 8to. 340pp. (2), 164pp. 8pp. Modern green leather binding with gold borders and raised bands. Illustrated title-page with images of a vineyard, children playing and a globe. Scholarly anthology edited by the Eastern European maskil Eleazar Atlas. Includes essays by Samuel Joseph Fuenn, Jacob Reines... More
Sofia: Social Cultural and Educational Association of the Jews in the People's Republic of Bulgaria - Central Board, 1970-1989. First edition. Softcover. Quartos. Stiff printed wrappers of various colors, with black and white lettering on front covers and spines. The 1989 volume is a hardcover volume, including a green and... More
Paris: Centre D'Études Historiques, (1956). Hardcover. Large 4to. 440pp. Original green cloth. with blind stamped lines on cover board and gold lines on spine. Gold lettering on cover board and spine. History of Jews in Poland from the Middle Ages until 1939. Topics include Radanites, King Casimir the Great, Kabbalah... More
Tel Aviv: Menorah, 1958. Softcover. 8vo. 322pp. (1). Original printed paper wrappers with photograph of Anne Frank on front cover. Yiddish translation of the Diary of Anne Frank. As a child Anne Frank hid with her family to escape the Nazis. Several days after the last entry in her diary... More
New York: Yiddish Scientific Institute-YIVO, 1946-1983. First edition. Softcover. Small Quarto. This is a compete and consecutive run of 18 volumes of the annual publication from 1946-1983 (this does not include the proceeding publication simply titled "YIVO Annual"). This is a mixed set, with vols 14 & 15 in green... More
Roma: Pinciana, 1935 (Anno XIV). Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/100. Octavo. 235, [5]pp. Original blue moire covered boards, with gold lettering on covers and spine. Marbled endpapers. Limitation page inscribed and signed by the author to Ferruccio Servi.* Collection of articles published in Ovazza's "La nostra Bandiera" throughout 1934, in... More
New York: Federation of Polish Jews in America, 1935. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 72pp. (English pagination). 68pp. (Yiddish pagination). Tan illustrated paper wraps with dark blue lettering on the front cover. The front and back cover illustrations are by Arthur Szyk, featuring scenes of Jewish shtetl life in Poland, and... More
Madrid: Ediciones Arion, 1961-1962. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 540, [2], 462, [2], 576, [2]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over gilt-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Publisher's leaflet laid in. Title pages in green and black lettering. Profusely illustrated throughout, "Los Judios en la España moderna y contemporanea" is a.... More