Leipzig: Joh. Friedrich Gleditsch, 1687. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. (16) 458 (14)pp. Original contemporary vellum with beveled edges and handwritten lettering on spin, library sticker on lower spine. Peiffer (1640-1698) was a German Lutheran theologian, orientalist, and the superintendent of Lübeck. Considered one of the theologians who have influenced Johann... More

London: Printed for John Saywell, 1658. Third edition, enlarged and perfected. Hardcover. Two works bound in one. Octavo. (30) 544 (8), (22) 78 (2)pp. Contemporary spotted calf with gold lettering on spine. Engraved frontispiece of author. Printer's device on title page. Decorative initials and headpieces. Few pencil notations in margins... More

Cantabrigiae (Cambridge): Apud C. Crownfield; E. Jeffery & W. Thurlboum, 1727. Second revised. Hardcover. Folio (14 x 9 1/4"). [1] leaf (Frontispiece), [20]pp (Title, Praefatio; Praefatio auctoris ad lectorem; Librorum, Capitum, & Sectionum Argumenta; Subscribers to Spencer), 635, [1]pp. (Vol. 1); [2], [636]-1232, [28]pp (Index) (Vol. 2). Modern full brown... More

Cantabrigiae {Cambridge}: Excudebat Joannes Field, celeberrimae Academiae Typographus. Imprensis Edovardi Story, 1663. Hardcover. 8vo. (6)89pp. 89pp. Original leather. Boards detached but present. Raised bands. Some scuffing, abrasion and wear to boards. Front board loose. Boards slightly bowed. Corners bumped and worn. Browning and chipping to endpapers. Front endpaper starting but... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XXIV, [2], 294pp. Uncut. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Fly leaf inscribed, and dated (October 1918) by the author to Stephen Samuel Wise, the renown Austro-Hungarian-born American Reform rabbi and Zionist leader. Laid... More

London: Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, 1788. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2"). iv, [12], 373, [1]pp. Later full calf, with gold lettering and ruling to spine. In his "History of the Effects of Religion on Mankind," the author, after comparing Pagan, Jewish and... More

Herbornae Nassaviorum (Herborn): Johannis Nicolai Andreae, 1717. Third edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8 3/4 x 6 3/4"). [24], 492, [4]pp. Contemporary blind-stamped parchment, with handwritten title to spine. Raised bands. Additional engraved title by A. C. Fleischmann. Title page in red and black lettering. Publisher's device on title. Decorative head-, tailpieces... More

Halle: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Maisenhauses, 1834. First edition. Hardcover. 2 parts in one. 8vo. xx,497,[1],pp. viii,266pp. Marbled boards with black leather label on spine. Gold lettering on label. Comparative study on the history of Jewish-Alexandrian (Alexandria) religious philosophy. Some age wear on binding. Head and tail of spine slightly... More

Paris: Michel Levy Freres, 1861. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 399pp. 1/4 red leather over black paper covered boards with gilt decorated and lettered spine. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Corners worn. Scuffing rubbing and minor staining to boards. Blue endpapers. Minor browning and water staining to pages, not... More

New York: Fowlers & Wells, 1851. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (xiii) 263pp. + 1 page of ads at the rear. Blue-grey buckram with blind stamped illustrations and designs on the covers and spine. Title in gilt on the spine. Illustrated dedication page. The fascinating publication espouses the author'spersonal philosophy and... More