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1997ref. 70893Seattle WA: Trident Books 1997. Second edition of the limited edition facsimile reprint. Leather Bound. 86pp. Octavo 23.5 cm Bound by the studios of Ars Obscura in full black leather with the title stamped in gilt on the spine and front cover. Publisher's black text block edges. Marbled-patterned endpapers. Black silk ribbon page marker. With just a few faint scratches to the covers. In the black cloth covered slipcase. Both the book and slipcase are in better than very good condition. Near fine in a very good plus slipcase. Number 130 in an edition limited to 500 copies. Originally published by Alibeck the Egyptian at Memphis in 1517. The first part concerns the characters of Demons. The subject of the second part is natural and supernatural secrets for example how to make a girl come to you "However Modest She May Be." The third part is the Key of the Work the Magical Knife Lancet Sacrificial Knife etc. The fourth part consists of the Sanctum Regnum ie: Conjurations for Lucifer Beelzebub and Astraroth and the manner of licensing the devils to depart unto their abodes. Known as "The True Grimoire" this is one of the most renowned handbooks of black magic. Trident Books unknown books
1990ref. 445474New York: Grove Weidenfeld 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Later printing. Interpreted by Harold Bloom. Foxing on page edges spine cocked very good in a near fine dust jacket with internal foxing. Grove Weidenfeld hardcover books
1930ref. 389977Boston Massachusetts: The South Boston Hebrew Juniors 1930. Softcover. Very Good. Typed magazine and accompanying holograph essay. Quartos. The magazine consists of six sheets typed on the rectos stapled together with two additional blank sheets serving as front and rear covers. The front cover is detached very good. A “special paper” published by the members of the South Boston Hebrew Juniors as part of a fundraising effort. Made-up of various short pieces relating to the club including an original poem and a jest about how to become an American citizen. With an accompanying holograph essay: “Anti-Semitism the Scourge of Israel; and Palestine the Hope of Israel.” written in ink on the rectos only of six notebook sheets presumably by one of the club's younger members. References are made to: “the thousands who are homeless in the Mississippi Valley …” “war and desolation in China” and to “the millions in Eastern Europe whose spirit has been broken .” Some toning and a few scattered tiny tears to the right edges very good. There are no known copies of the magazine which is quite probably a lone survivor. The South Boston Hebrew Juniors unknown books
ref. 39481Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman 5605. 8vo 5 volumes. 8 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches. Hebrew and English text on facing pages. Each volume inscribed at the head of the English-language title "To my beloved wife from her affectionate husband" the first volume with a later family annotation. Contemporary purple morocco spine in six compartments with raised bands lettered in gilt in the second and fourth repeating gilt decoration in others marbled edges marbled endpapers. Provenance: Solomon Nunes Carvalho each cover stamped in gilt Rare large-paper association copy of the first Jewish translation of the Pentateuch into English. More than any other person of his time Isaac Leeser 1806-1868 envisioned the development of a major center of Jewish culture and religious activity in the United States. He single-handedly provided American Jews with many of the basic religious texts institutions and conceptual tools they needed to construct the cultural foundation of what would later emerge as the largest Jewish community in the history of the Jewish people. Printed in 1845 this edition of the Pentateuch in five volumes included a vocalized Hebrew text of each of the Five Books of Moses together with an English translation and notes as well as the haftarot prophetic readings. Leeser actually began working on The Law of God in 1838. Among the factors involved in his decision to begin systematically working on a translation was the recent opening of Rebecca Gratz's Sunday School which met for the first time in March 1838 in Philadelphia and was desperately in need of appropriate study material. Students were compelled to use the King James Bible for want of a Jewish alternative. Religiously objectionable passages in other texts provided by Protestant organizations were either pasted over or torn out by Gratz's staff. Leeser who supported the Sunday School and was its chief academic resource person felt compelled to find more suitable texts for the students. The impetus for Leeser throughout was always his desire to provide the Jews of America with an English text of the Bible that was produced by one of their own and was not tainted by conversionist motivations. This copy with provenance to Solomon Nunes Carvalho who was a noted American painter photographer writer and inventor best known for traveling with John C. Fremont on his fifth expedition through Kansas Colorado and Utah. He published an account of that journey titled "Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West; with Colonel Fremont's Last Expedition" 1860 and was considered a pioneer in travel photography. Isaac Leeser the hazzan of Congregation K.K. Mikveh Israel married Carvalho and his wife Sarah Miriam Solis on October 15 1845 in Philadelphia where Carvalho's father had a workshop. Rosenbach 569; Singerman 884; Goldman 7; Lance J. Sussman "Another Look at Isaac Leeser and the First Jewish Translation of the Bible in the United States" Modern Judaism Vol. 5 No. 2 Gershom Scholem Memorial Issue. May 1985 pp. 159-190. Printed by C. Sherman unknown books
1951ref. 32254New Haven: Yale University Press 1951. First edition. Hardcover. g. Octavo. XV 1 335 1pp. Original printed dust-jacket over burgundy cloth with gold lettering and publisher's device on spine. This remarkable work offers the first translation ever made of all the treatises in Book Twelve of the Code. It consists of the following five treatises: The Law of Sales; The Law of Gifts; The Law of Neighbors; The Law of Agents and Partners; The Law of Slaves. Some age wear on dust-jacket with spine and edges sunned and moderate chipping along upper edges. Dust-jacket in overall fair to good- binding and interior in very good condition. Yale University Press hardcover books
1985ref. 32615Atlanta: Scholars Press 1985. First American edition. Softcover. vg. Octavo. 6 178pp. Original printed wrappers. Remarkable work which constitutes the first comprehensive and vigorous critique of Gershom Scholem's renowned work on Jewish mysticism. Wrappers and interior in overall very good condition. Scholars Press unknown books
1847ref. 20246Berlin: Friedländersche Buchdruckerei 1847. First edition thus with German commentary. Hardcover. g. 8vo. 6 10pp. 40pp. xiv. 1/4 blue cloth over black paper covered boards. Printed on high quality cotton rag/ Famous work by renowned Medieval Jewish Rabbi Physician and Philosopher Moses Maimonides a.k.a. Ramba"m 1135-1204. Translated from Judeo-Arabic into Hebrew by Rabbi Isaac ben Nathan. This is the first edition with a German commentary: Renowned Orientalist and bibliographer Moritz Steinschneider see below added a summary a linguistic analysis and a thematic analysis in his preface. Age wear to binding with minor browning and foxing throughout. Overall clean and tight. In Hebrew with German preface. Good condition. R. Moses Maimonides Rambam was a 12th century Jewish philosopher and halachic legal scholar. A highly controversial figure both during his lifetime and after his death but generally acknowledged as the preeminent Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. He was born in Córdoba Spain but fled as a child from the Almohad persecution. He eventually settled in Egypt where he served as a rabbi physician and philosopher. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah his only work not in Arabic still carries canonical authority particularly within the Yemenite Jewish community as the codification of Talmudic law. His other work includes a commentary on the Mishnah entitled Kitab al-Siraj Kitab al-Fara'I a book on precepts and the philosophical work Dalalat al-Ha'irin known in Hebrew as the Moreh Nevukhim The Guide to the Perplexed. The major premise is an attempted philosophical/theological reconciliation of the Hebrew Bible and Greek knowledge. This work came to play a central role in all subsequent major controversies over philosophy within the Jewish community during the Middle Ages. On the editor: Moritz Steinschneider 1816 – 1907 was a Bohemian Orientalist and bibliographer. He received his early instruction in Hebrew from Jacob Steinschneider 1782 - 1856 his father who was not well versed in both Talmud and secular science. In order to show the part that Jews had taken in the general history of civilization Kulturgeschichte Steinschneider chose fields unrelated to Jewish religion and theology like mathematics medicine natural history and philology. He was the first scholar to give a systematic survey of Jewish literature till the end of the eighteenth century and to publish catalogues of the Hebrew manuscripts and books which are found in the public libraries of Europe. The Bodleian catalogue was the foundation of his reputation as the greatest Jewish bibliographer. On the author Source: Public Domain: Moritz Steinschneider 1816 – 1907 was a Bohemian Orientalist and bibliographer. He received his early instruction in Hebrew from Jacob Steinschneider 1782 - 1856 his father who was not well versed in both Talmud and secular science. In order to show the part that Jews had taken in the general history of civilization Kulturgeschichte Steinschneider chose fields unrelated to Jewish religion and theology like mathematics medicine natural history and philology. He was the first scholar to give a systematic survey of Jewish literature till the end of the eighteenth century and to publish catalogues of the Hebrew manuscripts and books which are found in the public libraries of Europe. The Bodleian catalogue was the foundation of his reputation as the greatest Jewish bibliographer. Source: Public Domain. Friedländersche Buchdruckerei hardcover books
1972ref. 14890Bruxelles: Editions de L'Universite de Bruxelles 1972. Conference publication. Softcover. g. 8vo. 422pp. Original wrappers. "Les actes du Deuxieme Colloque sur la Vie Juive dans l'Europe contemporaine tenu a l'linstitute de Sociologie de l'Universite Libre de Bruxelles du 9 au 12 janvier 1967. Textes reunis et revus par Willy Bok et Usiel Oscar Schmelz." A book on political and social conditions for Jews in Europe at the beginning of the 1970's. Includes bibliographical references. Illustrated with diagrams & tables. Text in French. Minor creasing scuffing and discoloration to wrappers. Stamp of "Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc. N.Y." on title-page. Wrappers in good interior in very good condition. Rare. Editions de L'Universite de Bruxelles unknown books
1894ref. 17549Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co 1894. Hardcover. g. 8vo. xxii413pp. Brown cloth with title-plate. Minor chipping to edges and slight abrasion on title-plate. Head and tail of spine slightly chipped. Wear to corners. Slight staining to boards. Decorated endpapers. Small handwritten plate pasted inside front board. Stamp and name of previous owners on blank page following front endpaper. Hinges starting. "Judaism at the World's Parliament of Religions comprising the papers on Judaism read at the Parliament at the Jewish Denominational Congress and at the Jewish Presentation." Binding in good- interior in very good condition. Robert Clarke & Co hardcover books
1966ref. 17184Jerusalem: Israeli Law Review Association 1966. Hardcover. vg. 4 volumes in 1. Large 8vo. 674pp. Serial publication bound in blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. Minor age wear. Text in English. Very good condition. Israeli Law Review Association hardcover books
1973ref. 329038London: Elek 1973. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries 170p. illustrated with period photographs and a couple of facsimiles first edition in 9x5.5 inch brown papered boards gilt and enclosed in the photodecorated dust jacket. Book itself is near-fine while the dj is intact but quite rubbed on front & rear panels. This is else a very good copy: sound clean and unmarked. Elek hardcover books
1692ref. 1327694Lipsiae: Johannis Casparis Meyeri/Gottfried Liebezeit 1692. Fifth Revised edition. Hardcover. Two works of Judaica bound together in a single volume: Henrico Opitio Heinrich Opitz with B. Wasmuthi. Hazer leshon ha-qodesh: Hoc est atrium linguae sanctae. Lipsiae: Johannis Casparis Meyeri 1692. Fifth Revised edition. 156 pages. Henrico Opitio Heinrich Opitz. Novum Lexicon Hebraeo-Chaldaeo-Biblicum. Lipsiae: Gottfried Liebezeit 1692. 1095 pp. Hebrew 62 pp. Chaldaean. Square quarto in full vellum binding with faded hand-written titles on spine. All edges tinted blue. Pagination restarts with each part. Text in Hebrew and Latin. Condition: Very Good. The binding is shaken with some shelf-wear and bumping. The spine and boards are sunned and somewhat warped and there are some splits at hinges and gutter. Medium age-toning and some foxing. Scattered marginalia some of which are in Hebrew and some of which appear to be lists of occurrences of particular Hebrew words in the Hebrew Scriptures. Dimensions 7 x 8.125 x 3.125 shelved case 4. 1327694. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Johannis Casparis Meyeri/Gottfried Liebezeit hardcover books
1957ref. 26201Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. Black and white photographs fold-out diagrams. First edition. Very good in a good a few small chips damp stain on rear panel dust jacket. . Israel Exploration Society hardcover books
1984ref. 18331Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv, Israel Bible Company, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984. XXVII, 260, XXVIII, 289, XXVI, 295, XIX, 320, LXXVI, 278, XIII, 297 pages. Grand in-8°, imitation leather bindings with dust-jacket.
1980ref. 19312Ramat-Gan, Bar-Ilan University Press, 1980. LXX, 218 SS. 8°, Pappband im orig.-Schutzumschlag. Der Einband am Außenfalz mit kl. Schaden, der Schutzumschlag mit etwas Gebrauchsspuren, sonst sauber und gut erhalten.
1992ref. 19004Leiden, New York and Köln, Brill, 1992. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, edited by The Board of the Quarterly, vol. XLIX. Xiii, 285 pp., 9 plates, 1 portrait as frontispiece. 8vo, original cloth with gilt spine and boards.
1960ref. 19433Leiden, Brill, 1960. XI, 240 pp., 1 folded map (Edom). 8vo, original cloth.
1958ref. JUDA0482München, Basel, Reinhardt 1958. 143(1) S., OLn., im Text Anstreichungen
1912ref. JUDA1624Bonn, Marcus u. Weber 1912. 38 S., 1 Bl. Vlgsanz., HLn. d. Zt. m. aufkasch. Umschlagtit., dieser gebräunt m. Rasurspur (geringer Textverlust b. Reihentitel), Innentit. u. letzte Seite gestempelt. (= Kleine Texte f. Vorlesungen u. Übungen. 22/23).
1954ref. 3084144Jerusalem: Bialik Institut 1954. 40, 58 Seiten. 4° (25-35 cm). Bibliotheks-Halbleinenband. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
1954ref. 3084145Jerusalem: Bialik Institut 1954. 40 Seiten. 4° (25-35 cm). Bibliotheks-Halbleinenband. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
1910ref. 3084138Cambridge: University Press 1910. LXIV, 23; VII, 50 Seiten. Mit 1 Faksimile. 4° (25-35 cm). Goldgeprägter Orig-Leinenband. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
2011ref. 22117CBZürich, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2011. 4°, 335 S. mit zahlreichen s/w- und Farbabbildungen, farbig illustr. original Kartonage (Paperback), Erstausgabe sehr schönes, sauberes Exemplar
1929ref. 148449Verlag Dr. Josef Flech, Buchhandlung. Prag 1929. 93, (1) Seiten und mehrere, leere Blätter auf blauem Papier für eigene Eintragungen (Hier jedoch ohne Eintragungen). Blauer Original-Leinwand-Einband. (Teils mit geringeren Gebrauchsspuren). 16x11 cm
1989ref. 148112Verlag S. Zack & Co., Jerusalem, Israel 1989. 221 Seiten und die vierseitige Beilage "Brückenwörter". Blaue Originalbroschur. (Geringe Gebrauchsspuren). 24x17 cm
