Amsterdam: Selomoh Props (Selomoh Proops), 5474 [1712]. Fifth printing. Hardcover. 16mo. 3.5x6". 134pp. Turquoise pebbled cloth over pebbled paper boards, gilt lettering on the spine. Marbled endpapers. The book is a complete Spanish-language translation of the biblical book Song of Songs (Song of Solomon), and Perkei Avot (Ethics of the..... More
Philadelphia: Adam Waldie, 1830. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 139pp. Rebound blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Gray endpapers. Isaac Leeser's first printed work in America. Translated from the German of J. Johlson, teacher of an Israelitish School at Frankfurt on the Maine by Isaac Leeser. "The design of..... More
London: Miles Flesher, 1683. First edition. Eight parts, quarto. A4 (blank A1) a-z4 2A-3L4 3M2 (blank 3M2) (= 234 leaves). [xiv], 450, [2, blank]pp. Text of Abravanel (pp. 226-337) in two columns, Hebrew with facing translation in Latin. Each of the eight treatises with divisional title page; register and pagination..... More
Amsterdam: Yshak de Cordova, 5466 [1706]. Fifth printing. Hardcover. 16mo. 3.5x6". 167pp. (missing final page). Original brown calf boards. The book is a complete Spanish-language translation of the biblical book Song of Songs (Song of Solomon), and Perkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers), the famed collection Jewish ethical sayings taken..... More
Warsaw: Ahi'asaf, 1912. 4to. 584pp. 526pp. 552pp. 597pp. 122pp. Original half-leather over black cloth. Dictionary of terms found in rabbinic literature with quotes from source material. Hebrew and Aramaic words are translated into Russian and Yiddish. The first volume was published in 1884. Samuel Joseph Fuenn was a moderate Russian..... More
London: Facsimile Editions, 1996. Limited edition. Hardcover. Perek Shirah is a cosmic hymn to the Creator in which all of Creation, including the winds, clouds, all species of birds, mammals and fish sing praises for their very existence. It opens with the promise that those who recite it “are assured..... More
Livorno: Yisrael Kushta, 1877 or 1878 - 1887 or 1888. Hardcover. 4to. Contemporary half leather over black pebbled cloth. Speckled edges. Complete edition of the "Zohar." Includes "Sitrei Torah," "Midrash ha-Ne'elam" and "Ra'aya Meheimna." Printed with large easy to read block letters, vowel markings and footnotes and comments from R...... More
Altona, Hamburg: Johann Friedrich Hammerich, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi, 800pp. Bound in brown pebbled half cloth over black pebbled boards. Treatise of Jewish law and observances by Samson Raphael Hirsch, the German Orthodox Rabbi who founded the school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism (Today's modern Orthodoxy) and a vocal..... More
Philadelphia: Adam Waldie, 1830. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 139pp. Rebound blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Gray endpapers. Isaac Leeser's first printed work in America. Translated from the German of J. Johlson, teacher of an Israelitish School at Frankfurt on the Maine by Isaac Leeser. "The design of..... More
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Amsterdam: Joan and Cornelis Blaeu, 1642. Second edition. Sammelband of two works (jointly issued), the latter in two parts, quarto. [12], 174, [1, errata], [1, blank]; [12], 732 (pp. 353-360 repeated), xvii addenda, [19, index], x addenda, [28, index], [1 emendanda], [1 blank]pp. All four addenda and indices to the..... More
Leipzig: Ioh. Frid. Zeitlerum, 1705. Third edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [20], 1504, [82]pp. Original full vellum with gold-stamped lettering and borders on spine. All edges red. Marbled endpapers. Ex-libris of Biblioth. Collegii Carol and ex-libris of Ducis Brunsvicensis et Luneburgensis at rear of front board. Illustrated woodcut vignette on title-page. Decorative..... More
Amsterdam: Hendrick Boom and the Widow of Dirk Boom, 1695. First edition. Two parts, quarto. [8], 154, [2, errata]; 171, [2, variantes lectiones] [1, corrigenda] [2, blank]pp. Title in red and black, with woodcut vignette; half-title for the second part; woodcut lettrines. A dedication to the Burgemeisters of Amsterdam appears..... More
Frankfurt a. O. Yohanan Kristof Bekman, 1690. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. 4to. 178 leaves. Three quarter red pebbled cloth over black marble boards with gold lettering on spine. Illustrated title page featuring the biblical figures of Aaron and Samuel. This title page is reproduced before Psalms section. Separate title page..... More
Vienna: Joseph Kaiser, 1880. Hardcover. 8vo. 26pp. 208 (1)pp. 3/4 Dark blue leather over paper covered boards in matching color, with original wrappers bound in. Raised bands. Red label at spine with embossed gilt lettering. Orange endpapers. Title on inbound green wrappers, followed by title page in German and Hebrew..... More
Amsterdam: Hirts Levi Rofe, [1732]. Third edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [1] 199 leaves (double-sided), [2]. Rebound in 3/4 brown morocco over red marbled paper boards. Title page with decorative woodcut borders on the top and bottom. This influential work on Jewish ethics by noted Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Abraham, ha-Kohen of..... More
Hamburg: Johann Wolffgang Fickweiler, 1722. Later edition. Hardcover. Folio. (40) (2) 1090 (142)pp. (Index), 30 plates, incl. frontispiece. Original full vellum with handwritten title in ink on spine. Red edges. Engraved frontispiece. Title page in red and black lettering. Five half-titles. Decorative and historiated head-, tailpieces and initials. Marginalia. Remarkable..... More
Frankfurt: J. Kauffmann, 1903-1932. Annual. Octavo. Original illustrated green cloth with black lettering on cover and spine. Decorative endpapers. Complete set of this organ for scientific discussion of Jewish culture and the history of ideas. Next to the Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums (Monthly for History and Scientific..... More
Jerusalem: Makor, 1970. First edition thus. Lg. 4to. Title pages in English and Hebrew. (10)pp. Plus 386 pages of Hebrew manuscript facsimiles. Vellum spine over brown buckram, vertical grain red morocco spine label. Edition limited to 135 copies. Published by special permission of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Bereshit Rabbah is a talmudic-era..... More
Amsterdam: Jan Jansson; Fredderik Heyns (University Printer at Franeker), 1629. First edition. Small quarto. [asterisk]-4[asterisk]4 A-3I4 (= 236 leaves). [xxxii], 436, [1, address to the reader], [3, addenda, emendanda and errata]pp. Text in two columns, interspersed with full-page commentary and printed marginalia. Contemporary calf, spine with raised bands and old..... More
New York: Printed by William A. Davis, 1797. First American edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 240pp. Period 3/4 red leather over brown marbled paper boards. The work is British-Jewish scholar David Levi's (1742–1801) defense of the Old Testament, in light of recent attacks leveled at biblical authority and organized religion by the..... More
Frankfurt an der Oder: Mikhal Gotshalk, 1699. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 48 leaves. Modern black cloth library binding. Title page contains an image of Jacob being reunited with Joseph in Egypt. (This image is also used by the contemporary Amsterdam printer Joseph Athias in his Bible.) This is a cabalistic..... More
New York: Stanford and Swords, 1847. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (xi) 245pp. Brown cloth boards, with blind stamped ruling on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. The publication was created for the purposes of English speaking non-Jews, and more specifically aimed at Christian missionaries, as a reference and introductory..... More
Frankfurt: Johann Kelner, [1712]. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [1] 143 double-sided leaves. Rebound in modern black buckram boards. Blue and white sticker on the spine with handwritten lettering in black in ink. Gilt ruling to the head and tail of the spine. Decorative woodcut borders on the title page, woodcut..... More
Basel: Ludovici König, 1620. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [12] 324pp. Vellum binding, with remnants of paper labels and black manuscript lettering on the spine. Decorative woodcut printer's device on the title page, as well as a large woodcut initial and decorative headpiece on the first paginated leaf. Intended as the..... More
Breslau: Th. Schatzky, (1903-1929). 1) Heinemann, Isaak; Die Lehre von der Zweckbestimmung des Menschen im griechisch-römischen Altertum und im jüdischen Mittelalter. (Erscheint gleichzeitig im Verlage von M. & H. Marcus in Breslau). 95pp. 2) Lewkowitz, Albert. Mechanismus und Idealismus. II. Seele und Wert. 95pp. 3) Jahres-Bericht des jüdisch-theologischen Seminars Fränckel'scher Stiftung..... More