London: Alexander Hogg, [1780]. First book form edition. Hardcover. Folio (13 6/8 x 9 1/3"). [8], 1704 (i.e. 704), XIIpp. Modern half calf over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. Raised bands. Modern endpapers and fly leaves. Engraved frontispiece. Originally published in 60 fascicles, William Hurd's brilliant..... 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: John Williams, 1828. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [6], 956pp. Full cloth. All paper edges marbled. Additional engraved title page, dated 1826. Remarkable survey of the ritual and ceremonial life of all the known religions of the world. Abridged from Picart's "Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du..... More

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1841. 8vo. lxxx, 388pp. Front board missing. Spine and back board almost detached. Free front endpaper missing. Two title-pages, one loose. Signature of previous owner "Philip Grossman" on attached title-page. Part of a series "Anekdota zur Geschichte der mitteralterlichen Scholastik unter Juden und Moslemen." Text in..... 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

Avignon: François Chambeau, 1804. Nouvelle edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 382pp. (2). Brown leather covered boards with raised bands, red title-plate and ribbon marker. Red speckled edges. Title page with engraving of a person carrying a cross and a lamp. A comparison of Jewish and Christian practices by Abbé Claude Fleury, a...... More

Halle: Instituti Judaici, 1765. First edition. Softcover. Sextodecimo. (2) 52pp. Original copper wraps. Decorative initials and endpieces. Essay intended to support the Halle Institute Judaica concerned with the salvation of Jews, Moslems and Oriental Christians. The essay is based on Schultz' experience with the institute as well as his travels..... More