New York: Frayhayt, 1926-1936. First edition. This is a collection of 32 issues of "Der Hammer", the Yiddish language Communist weekly, including 28 covers by William Gropper. 11 Issues (Vol.6, February - December 1932) are bound together in a hardcover volume while the other 21 are in the original individual... More
México: En la Oficina de Don Mariano de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1807 (1808). First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo (7 3/4 x 5 1/2"). [6], 72pp, [4] leaves, 73-134pp. Modern 3/4 brown buckram over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. This scarce monograph is based on the results... More
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
New York: Frayhayt, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. 12x9". Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. This bound volume collects the complete 1932 full year run of the "Der Hammer" Yiddish-language magazine, in 11 issues, February-December. Includes Vol. 6 #1-11, Feb-Dec.1932: #1-3, Feb-Apr. 1932 (Do... More
Mantua (Mantova): Ha'Achim B'nei Rabbi Yehoshua M'Prushah (The Brothers, the Sons of Rabbi Yehoshua, from Perugia), 1676. First edition. Loose leaf. Small quarto. Approximately 8.5x6.5". 12pp. Pages uncut. The Seder Ha-ha'arakhah (Order of Assessment) was the tax code for the Jewish community of Mantua. These tax regulations were first published... 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
Various: Various, 1908–1935. Loose-leaf. All items but one are in letter size and printed or mimeographed. Texts in German. 1. Ausweis über die Benützung von Synagogenplätzen (Identification for the use of seats in the synagogue, printed in black). Unused sheet granting seating in the Grünstadt synagogue (Rhineland-Palatinate) based on a decision..... More
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: 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
St. Petersburg: NP, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (xv) 456pp. Modern dark brown textured leather boards. The work is a thorough examination of the history of Russian laws relating to the Jewish community from the medieval period up through the 19th century. The book would have been quite important and... 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
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
Paris: Société Anonyme Les Illustrés Français, 1933. First edition. Softcover. Large quarto (11 1/2 x 8"). 105, [3]pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers, with white lettering to front cover. This scarce issue of "Témoignages de Notre Temps" (Witness to our Time), is a loving and moving tribute to Jewish life and culture..... 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
Minsk: Institut der Weissruthenischer Kultur - Jiddische Abteilung, 1926, 1928. Hardcover. 4to. 272pp. (3), 908 columns, xiii. Three quarter blue cloth over black cloth. Scholarly Yiddish journal produced in the Soviet Union during the early days of the Stalinist regime with articles by leading scholars such as Max Weinreich and... 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
Lviv (Lwow): Nakladem Funduszu Konkursowego imiena. Hip. Wawelberga, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. (xvi) 577pp. + 188pp (documents, tables and Index). Rebound in green pebbled cloth. Edges of the book block in red. Floral endpapers. The author helped found the study of Polish Jewish History in the early 20th... 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
St. Petersburg: N.P., 1914. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (iv) 345pp. (vii) [1]. Original period purple-grey cloth boards with black lettering and ruling on the covers and spine. Decorative endpapers. The work is a history of the Jews in Russia from the 15th-19th centuries. The role of Jews in Russian society... More
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