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1787réf. 1411730Germantaun Germantown: Michael Billmeyer 1787. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 537 5 pages. In Good condition. In full contemporary leather binding with paneled spine; metal clasps to fore edge. Boards show moderate scuffing with rubbing along edges and cracking along joints. Small areas of exposed board at fore corners. Chipping to head and tail of spine. Cracking to leather of clasps. Text block is darkly age toned and moderately worn and soiled along edges. Age toning and foxing throughout with scattered stains. Contemporary ink doodles on front and rear endpapers; small areas of chipping along fore edge of front flyleaf. Splitting to hinges. Some sparse small dog-ear creases present in top corners. Shelved in Room X. 1411730. Special Collections - Downstairs. Michael Billmeyer hardcover books
1912réf. 51619Berlin: A. R. Meyer 1912. First edition. Softcover. Very good- condition. Small Octavo. 15 1pp. Original wraps with woodcut by Carrà and black lettering on cover. Authorized translation by Else Hadwiger with introduction by Rudolf Kurtz and a title portrait by the Futurist "Carrà." Like all vivacious dogmatists Marinetti is not ironic and the hymn is his natural form of expression. He produces a heroic stance which in its obstinate unswayable monumentality invokes Schiller's shadow. He is continuously mired in that boisterous music of the spheres; a bow finger of the eternal ocean glorious sunsets the valiant death. An enthusiast observing from the furthest edge of his time vom äußersten Kap seiner Zeit schauend; advanced to the beauty of iron constructions and by no means recoils from the hymn to the automobile.' Translated from Robert Kurz. Contains Marinetti's poems "An das Rennauto" Addressing the Race Car "Der Abend und die Stadt" The Evening and the City "Die Fanfare der Wellen" The Fanfare of Waves "Gegen die Syllogismen" Against Syllogism and "Hymnus an den Tod" Hymn to Death. Lists previously published works on back cover including works from Frank Wedekind Max Brod Arno Holz Else Lasker-Schueler René Schickele Alfred Lichtenstein Paul Zech Gottfried Benn and others. Text in German. Front and back cover detached but present. Some age-toning else in very good condition. A. R. Meyer unknown books
1970réf. 009855Cardiff: University of Wales Press 1970. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. One of Griffiths two most important works. "This is the first modern commentary on Plutarch's De Iside et Osiride to be accompanied by a new recension of the greek text and also the first to be undertaken by a classical scholar who is at the same time an Egyptologist." front flap. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket tiny tear at top edge of spine faint staicker shadow rear panel. University of Wales Press Hardcover books
1742réf. 47849Paris: Guillaume Cavelier Pere 1742. New edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Duodecimo. Original mottled calf with gilt lettering tooling and ruling on spine; raised bands. Speckled edges. Decorative endpapers. Each volume with frontispiece. Titles printed in red and black with publisher's device. Decorative head and endpieces. Decorative initials. New edition divided into six volumes expanded and revised illustrated with copper engravings and maps many of them folding. Includes maps of Palestine Asia Minor Syria and others charts and tables. Text in French. Some light wear along edges of bindings volume one with one and a half inch closed tear at tail of spine at joint. Some fading of gilt lettering. Some very light sporadic foxing in blocks. One folding map with small closed tears at fold. Guillaume Cavelier, Pere hardcover books
1970réf. 010066London: Jonathan Cape 1970. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First British Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine small corner and edge bumps prior owner bookplate and blindstamp at front end pages two small spots fore edge. In a Very Good dust wrapper small chips and rubs at spine ends and corners. A science fiction classic one of the the grandfathers of the satirical futuristic dystopia genre WE was banned in Russia in 1921and first published in English in 1924 by E. P. Dutton in New York in a translation by Gregory Zilboorg. The German TV network ZDF adapted the novel for a TV movie in 1982 under the German title Wir English: WE. Jonathan Cape Hardcover books
2004réf. CNAP068San Francisco: The Arion Press 2004. Limited Edition. Hardcover. New. Hamilton William. Folio 14 7/9" by 11" 120 pages. The type is 16-point Van Dijck in Monotype composition by Mackenzie & Harris for the text with larger sizes handset for display and an ornamental type Fontanesi for the title an initial letter and act numbers. The names of characters are separated from the dialogue by a wavy rule. The rule running heads folios decorative type and speeches repeated in larger type beneath the illustrations are printed in burgundy ink. The illustrations were printed from photopolymer plates. The paper is Arches a French mould-made sheet. The binding done in-house is hand-sewn in full burgundy moiré satin with gold titling on the spine and front cover and a protective mylar jacket. Edition of 300 numbered copies plus 26 lettered copies hors de commerce signed by the translator and illustrator. The course to publication of this book took many turns. It was first suggested by our literary agent Fred Hill who put Hoyem in touch with his friend Brian Bedford a distinguished actor who specializes in Molière comedies. Photographs of a current production of "Tartuffe" proved impossible to obtain as illustrations. While waiting for another idea for the art Hoyem got in touch with the poet Richard Wilbur who had made an excellent translation of the play in rhymed verse and obtained permission to use it. Then William Hamilton the "New Yorker" cartoonist came to mind. Hoyem had met Hamilton in 1978 and admired his liquid line and quick capturing of character and expression in his send-ups of WASPs. But could he do period costumes Hamilton made seven charming drawings with the main characters in period dress and the servants in modern dress. To celebrate the publication the Arion staff presented a staged reading from the play directed by veteran actress and director Joy Carlin. Bruce Bolt an eminent seismologist at the University of California Berkeley and an amateur actor took a matronly role wearing a skirt with an elastic waistband borrowed from his wife. This was the fifth volume in our drama series. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Arion Press hardcover books
2004réf. 48509Basel: Galerie Kämpf 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition. Inscribed "Stefanie Schneider meinem Dominique in Liebe" on colophon at rear. 35/100 numbered and signed edition of 400 total. Quarto. 28pp. stiff unnumbered boards including covers. Original photo-illustrated boards with black lettering on cover and spine housed in photo-illustrated stiff paper slipcase; cover and slipcase protected by modern mylar. Slipcase with printed text in handwriting: "Stefanie Schneider's 1st Book Do Not Sell! It Is Sold Out Handle With Care!" Published on the occasion of the exhibition "29 Palms CA" from January 15 - February 14 2004 at the Gallery Kämpf in Basel. Design and lithography by ArtnetworX GmbH Hannover. A collection of photographs taken in the "dazzling California sunshine or in not exactly comfortable rooms" depicting Radha and Max not a man seemingly exhausted lost empty or insecure; the emptiness of their gaze reminds us of the loneliness of people in the paintings of Degas so Stefan Gronert in his text. He likens the Schneider motifs to B-Movies showing people who don't want to succumb to the Hollywood dream. Memories of Cindy Sherman's "Untitled Film Stills" flair up he writes though Schneider's photos are soft a picture language with pale artificially garish color scales tying into the stereotypes of Hollywood films. A Polaroid story turned into magnified C-prints giving us the impression of a story without a plot. Minor wear along edges of binding. Galerie Kämpf hardcover books
1726réf. 47666Amsterdam: Antoni Schoonenburg en Nicolaas Ten Hoorn 1726. First Dutch edition. Hardcover. g to near fine. Folio. Vol. 1: 15 leaves 850 10pp. 19 plates incl. frontispiece title and Lundius portrait and tabernacle in forewords; Vol. 2: 1 852 11pp. 6 plates. Original calf with gilt double ruling on covers and gilt lettering on spine six raised bands. Speckled edges. Illustrated title page engraving. Title pages printed in red and black both with engraved vignettes. Decorative initials and endpieces. Marginalia. In the forewords in volume one that of the editor contains a full page portrait engraving of Lund rendered by P. Houbraken the author 's foreword contains a full page engraving of the plan of the tabernacle and its courtyard. Important and often-referenced treatise on ancient Jewish rites and symbolism the tabernacle the temple the high priests the Levites and the services of the old Hebrews written by the Lutheran pastor Johann Lund. The German edition was published posthumously in 1711 by Lund's son Thomas Lund. It is profusely illustrated with twenty-five full-page copper plate engravings four of them folding depicting the tabernacle the Arc of the Convenant the altar for sacrifices sepulchers the Temple of Solomon copper cleansing vessels the high priests and the Levites the idol Moloch receiving human sacrifices memorial charms for head and arms various plans e.g. the shape and arrangement of the bedsteads at the tabernacle among others. In addition the work is illustrated with numerous in-text copper engravings showing various essentials used in ceremonies as well as ancient coins and line drawings of architectural details. Both volumes contain registers at rear. Text in Dutch. Bindings with some wear along edges scuffing and very light fraying at corners front joint of volume one almost cracked and quarter inch chip along head and tail of spine volume two only at head. Rubbed. Bindings in overall good- interior in very good plates in near fine condition. Antoni Schoonenburg, en Nicolaas Ten Hoorn hardcover books
1864réf. 50647Krotoschin Krotoszyn/ Vienna/ Frankfurt am Main: Printed by B.L. Monasch/ Jacob Schlossberg's Buchhandlung/ Printed by Ferdinand Hauch 1864. First German translations. Hardcover. g to vg-. Octavo. 3/4 black morocco over buckram boards. Gilt lettering and ruling on the spine. Red speckled edges of book block. A complete set of the three parts of Maimonides acclaimed work The Guide for the Perplexed in German and Hebrew bound in one volume. All of the editions included here contain the first German translations of their respective parts of the text. Maimonides' intention with this work was to reconcile Aristotelian thought and logic with traditional Rabbinical Jewish theology. Originally written circa 1190 in Judeo-Arabic as Dalalat al-Ha'irin these writings takes the form of a lengthy three-part letter to his student Rabbi Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta and are seen as the main source for understanding Maimonides' philosophic view rather than his strictly being his views on Jewish law. It is the most known of his works in the non-Jewish world. The work's first translation into Hebrew was in 1204 by Rabbi Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon c.1150 - c.1230 a contemporary of Maimonides. Content: Moreh li-Tsedakah. Hu Sefer Moreh Nevukhim FIRST PART. 1839. Second German-language edition. 19 double-sided leaves with Hebrew pagination. 392pp. 3. In 1835 the first part of Maimonides acclaimed work was first translated into German with added commentary in Hebrew by Jacob Raphael Fürstenthal 1781-1855. That first edition featured the German translation printed in Latin script to accompany the Hebrew text. However for this second edition of that translation it is interesting to note that the text of the German is printed in Hebrew script. Content finely printed in double and single-column layouts with commentary printed in Rashi script. Divided in 76 chapters this part of the work contains discussions of an understanding and definition of the nature of God and divine anthropomorphism in the Hebrew bible including a detailed analysis of the Biblical Hebrew of the text to these ends. The final three pages included here contain and index in both Hebrew and German. BOUND WITH More Nebochim. Wegweiser für Berirrte SECOND PART. 1864. First German-language edition. x 99pp. This is the first German translation of the work's second part taken from the original Arabic text by way of the French translation by Salomon Munk 1861. The original Hebrew translation of the text is accompanied throughout by a translation and commentary in German by Max Emanuel Stern 1811-1873. Divided into 48 chapters the second part involves Maimonides discussion of proof of the existence of God the nature of creation the concept of prophecy and an examination of the 26 propositions for Aristotle's metaphysics. The initial pages contain introduction and foreword by Stern. Also included is a fold-out plate containing facsimile text from an original signed manuscript note from the hand of Maimonides himself written in Japhet son of Solomon's corrected manuscript copy of the Mishneh Torah held at Bodleian Library at Oxford MS Hunt.80 leaf 165a. AND WITH Dalalat al Haiirin Burechtweisung der Verirrten. Dritter Theil. THIRD PART. 1838. First German-language edition. viii 9 454pp. 5. This is the first German translation of the work's third part. Simon B. Scheyer 1804-1854 provides the translation and scholarly commentary in German to accompany the Hebrew of the text. This third and final part of Guide for the Perplexed is divided into 54 chapters and is considered the climax of the work and the culmination of Maimonides' previous analysis. Discussed are concepts including Jewish mysticism the Chariot of Ezekiel the moral aspects of the universe the problem of evil free will and the 613 mitzvot of the Torah. The final pages contain a scholarly index in German. Binding tight with some rubbing to extremities including the hinges of the spine. Spine and covers lightly sunned. Text throughout with some sporadic minor to light foxing. Much of the text is quite clean. A very few instances of underlining or notes in pencil. Binding in good interior in very good- condition overall. Hebrew title: מורה לצדקה .×”×•× ספר מורה × ×‘×•×›×™×/ מורה × ×‘×•×›×™×/ מורה × ×‘×•×›×™×. ×•×”×•× ספר דל×לה ×לח×ירין .חלק שלישי Author: משה בן מימון רפ×ל בר"י ×¤Ö¼×™×¨×©×˜×¢× ×˜×”×ל Publication: פרנקפורט/ קר×ט×שין תקצ״ט Alternate titles and transliterations: Moreh Nevukim Doctor Perplexorum Bibliographic references: PART 1 Vinograd Krotochin 14. PART 3 Vinograd Frankfurt 578 Provinence: Previously owned by Oxford religion scholar O.H.M. Lehmann dated 1949. Printed by B.L. Monasch/ Jacob Schlossberg's Buchhandlung/ Printed by Ferdinand Hauch hardcover books
1983réf. 87212New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1983. First American Edition. First Printing with "First Edition" and publisher's "BCDE" code on copyright page. Octavo 24.25cm; mauve paper-covered boards and cream cloth backstrip with titling and decorations stamped in copper on spine and front cover; map endpapers; dustjacket; viii1-502pp; illus. Signed by the author on the title page. Light scattered foxing to text edges and endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $15.95 shelfworn gently spine-sunned with numerous small tears some attendant creases a 2" triangular chip to upper rear panel and the remnants of an old sticker to upper front flap; only Very Good. Eco's best-known book a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in 1327. Originally published as Il nome della rosa in 1980. 87212. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich unknown books
1895réf. 49766Philadelphia: The Gebbie Publishing Co. Ltd 1895. Connoisseur Edition. One of 25 sets numbered and specially bound this being no.8. Eight octavo volumes 23.75cm; full black crushed morocco spines in six compartments with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spines and triple gilt-ruled border on covers; marbled endpapers; top edges gilt; xiv2255; xiii226-4335; x2384; x239-4475; xii2384; xii2394624; xii2264; xiv227-4764pp with frontispieces and 58 plates. Light wear to joints and extremities touch of dustiness finger-soil and a few scuffs to covers with faint foxing to text edges; contents relatively clean with hinges sound; Very Good. Handsome edition of the French critic and historian's landmark work on English literature published first in France in 1863 and translated into English in 1871. Gebbie published this set in a variety of issues the Connoisseur Edition representing the smallest available limitation. The Gebbie Publishing Co. Ltd unknown books
1969réf. 38378Northampton Massachusetts: The Gehenna Press 1969. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Number 34 of 200 copies signed by the famed illustrator and founder of the press Leonard Baskin. Leonard Baskin 1922 - 2000 was an American sculptor draughtsman and graphic artist as well as founder of the Gehenna Press 1942-2000. One of America's first fine arts presses it went on to become "one of the most important and comprehensive art presses of the world" often featuring the work of poets such as Sylvia Plath Ted Hughes Anthony Hecht and James Baldwin side by side with Baskin's bold stark energetic and often dramatic black-and-white prints. Called a "Sculptor of Stark Memorials" by the New York Times Baskin is also known for his wood limestone bronze and large-scale woodblock prints which ranged from naturalistic to fanciful and were frequently grotesque featuring bloated figures or humans merging with animals Wikipedia. Euripides was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy for whom any plays have survived in full. His play Hippolytos is an Ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides based on the myth of Hippolytus son of Theseus. The play was first produced for the City Dionysia of Athens in 428 BC and won first prize as part of a trilogy. The text is extant. This may be one of the most stunning of the many fine works published by this famous press. It is accompanied by a separate folder of ten prints with illustrations taken from the text. Bound in brown cream and black marbled paper boards with a brown leather spine with the author and title names in small gilt letters. The types are Monotype Centaur and Arright. The pressman was the well known printer Harold McGrath. Baskin's etchings were printed from the plates by Emiliano Sorini. In the colophon thanks are given to John Moore of Amherst College George Dimock of Smith College and Wililiam Arrowsmith James Hynd and Thomas Gould of the University of Texas for their comments on the text. The text was taken frin W.S. Barrett's edition of the play as published by the Oxford University Press. Housed in a slipcase that also holds the folder of prints. The slipcase has the same marbled papers that were used on the book.It also has a brown leather spine with the titling in gilt. There are two small stains on the leater spine. Other than that this work is in fine condition. Measores 13 x 20 inches. Unpaginated. PRI/080326. The Gehenna Press hardcover books
1927réf. 40636Tel Aviv: Devir Dvir 1927. First Hebrew Edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Small Folio. Unpaginated 17pp. White buckram spine over brown boards. Gold leaf debossed lettering on lithographic illustrated plate on front cover. The beautifully produced children's book is the Hebrew language translation of "Der Vogel Wandelbar" by German poet Richard Dehmel originally published in 1923. The book is illustrated with seven gorgeous full-page color lithographs cover image by J. Gleitsmann. The poem uses the image of the bird metaphorically to describe the trials and tribulations of growing up and being handicapped. Text in Hebrew. Binding with some staining to front and back with a 3 x 1/2" stain to upper left corner of front cover and a 1 1/2 x 1/2" stain to upper right corner of back cover. Corners lightly rubbed. Minor water stains to front lithograph else fine. Crease to upper right corner of front cover. Interior with some minor smudges. Binding in overall good- interior in very good condition. Devir (Dvir) hardcover books
1609réf. 625650Ginevra: Apud Iohan 1609. Hardcover. Very Good. Thick 32mo. 8 894pp. 40 index. Contemporary vellum flexible boards with the title faintly written on the spine. Parallel text in Greek and Latin. Boards worn and rubbed some soiling to the page edges pastedowns worn with some contemporary writing in pen minor edgewear to the pages and two pages of the index with tears still very good with the binding sound. Apud Iohan hardcover books
1723réf. 47525Lugduni Lyon: Jacobum Certe 1723. Editio Novissima New edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Quarto. 20 412 62 table and indices 11 plates 10 folding bound in 1 folding alphabet 11 plates at rear. Full vellum with brown lettering on spine. Title page with publisher's device. Decorative head- and endpieces historiated initials. In this work Bernard Lamy the renowned French Oratorian mathematician and theologian calls in question the historical character of the book of Tobias and book of Judith and maintains that even after the Council of Trent a difference of authority should be recognized between the proto-canonical and deutero-canonical books of the Bible. This study examines also such subjects as the history of the Hebrews and the Holy Land a description of the Tabernacle and Temple a history of the scriptures and a great many tangential matters like the plants animals minerals diseases and customs mentioned in the Bible. This book is exquisitely illustrated with 22 fine copper plate engravings ten of them folding in block one folding plate with Greek and Hebrew alphabet and eleven plates bound at rear. The eleven plates at rear depict animals and plants the others include two maps a plan of Jerusalem a detailed temple plan a priest with garments a rabbi with tefillin and 3 charts of coinage and measurements. Text in Latin. Binding with some wear few small chips slightly wavey some staining and light scuffing at spine. Some parts of book with stains at top margins due to water exposure. Binding in overall good- interior and plates in very good condition. About the author: Bernard Lamy 1640-1715 was a French Oratorian mathematician and theologian. Jacobum Certe hardcover books
1781réf. 1357586London: J. Walker 1781. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xiii 418 pages. In Good condition. Bound in full contemporary leather. Boards show some surface marks to covers cracks to hinges and light wear to edges and corners. Boards slightly shaken binding otherwise tight. Text block has minor age toning and several instances of light staining to edges and light age toning and foxing to pages throughout interiorly. Three plates present and intact. Previous owner bookplate to inside front pastedown: "Ex Libris Julius Friedenwald". An English language translation of Person's Nouveaux elemens d'anatomie raisonnée first published in 1749. MF consignment. Reference: ESTC T114740. 1357586. Special Collections. J. Walker hardcover books
1973réf. 1401039New York: Harper & Row 1973. First U.S. Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 172 pages. In Very Good plus condition with Very Good dust jacket. Spine of jacket is dark purple with pink lettering. Dust jacket is sleeved in a protective mylar cover and shows mild shelf wear on covers. Single small closed tears in top and bottom edges of jacket front. Very small area of chipping in top corner of jacket front near spine. Boards show mild rubbing wear and light sunning along bottom edges. Text block shows negligible shelf wear. Inscribed in black ink by Joseph Brodsky to Myra Sklarew on title page: "Joseph Brodsky / For Myra Sklarew from guess who" followed by a small drawing of a heart. Shelved in Room X. Joseph Brodsky was a Nobel-prize winning Jewish Russian-American poet who served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1991-1992. This book is inscribed to Myra Sklarew another Jewish poet and professor who was a prominent figure within the Washington D.C. literary scene alongside Brodsky. 1401039. Special Collections - Downstairs. Harper & Row hardcover books
1962réf. 81278New York: George Braziller 1962. First English Language Edition. First Printing. Folio 33.5cm; red cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; photo-illustrated endpapers; publisher's dustjacket and original acetate overlay; publisher's slipcase; 1011-2106pp; illus. Fine in a Fine unclipped dustjacket priced $35 showing some trivial wear at the crown; acetate overlay is a bit wavy else Near Fine; gentle sunning to slipcase extremities else very Near Fine. Pre-eminent modern artist Marc Chagall was nearly 70 when he began working on his first major stained glass projects during the mid-to-late 1950's. In 1959 he was commissioned to create a set of stained glass windows for Abbell Synagogue at the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem. Upon completion the Jerusalem Windows enjoyed two short exhibitions in Paris and New York before their permanent installation in the synagogue in 1962. These twelve masterpieces in stained glass each representing one of the twelve tribes of Israel are showcased in this lush folio which also includes two original lithographs Chagall created exclusively for this publication. Readers may observe the development of the windows through a procession of preparatory sketches in pencil ink and watercolor; the final models are represented on full page color plates 36 total. Additional commentary by Jean Leymarie explains the religious significance of each subject as well as Chagall's artistic intentions. An additional chapter details the assembly of the windows themselves and the book concludes with a selection of sketches and paintings related to the project. George Braziller unknown books
1781réf. 1409442London; Edinburgh: W. Strahan and T. Cadell; W. Creech 1781-1785. First English Edition. Hardcover. Small quartos Nine Volumes. In Very Good minus condition. In fine matching tree-calf bindings with elaborate gilt decoration along board edges and spines and gilt roll along the turn-ins; spines with gilt titling on colored morocco labels; with bound-in ribbon bookmarks. Boards show moderate shelf wear with small scuffs to covers rubbing along edges and mild bumping to fore corners. Fore corners often show small areas of exposed board. Splitting to joints and hinges of most volumes. Light shallow chipping to heads and tails of spines; heavier on Vol. I with some loss of material. Some rubbing to gilt elements on spines. Text blocks show moderate rubbing and wear along edges with dust soiling to top edges. All volumes moderately age toned and foxed throughout. Some pencil and pen numbering/notation on verso of the front flyleaves; a single mark in most volumes with more notes in Vol. I. CONTENTS: Vol. I 2 iii 2 iv-xxi 3 514 pages plus frontispiece and plates i-ii; Vol. II 4 517 pages plus plates iii-x.; Vol. III iv 4 524 pages plus plates xi-xv1 xv2 xv3-xxiii; Vol. IV vii 352 pages plus plates xxiv-liii1 liii2-lxxvii lxxix lxxviii lxxx-xcix; Vol. V vii 440 pages plus plates c-clxii; Vol. VI 4 443 plus plates clxiii-cxcvii; Vol. VII vii 452 pages plus plates cxcviii-ccxl1 ccxl2 ccxl3-ccli; Vol. VIII v 2 352 pages plus plates cclii-ccxcv; Vol. IX viii 422 2 pages plus plates cccii-cccvii. Shelved in Room A. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. This is an excellent first edition of William Smellie's influential English translation of the Comte de Buffon's monumental work the Histoire Naturelle which was a comprehensive multi-volume treatise on the most current natural science of the time. 1409442. Special Collections - Upstairs. W. Strahan and T. Cadell; W. Creech hardcover books
réf. 44043Amsterdam: Yshak de Cordova 5466. Fifth printing. Hardcover. poor to g-. 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 from the Talmud. Both of these works feature Moses Belmonte's translations which had been printed in Amsterdam since 1644. The translations are interlinear with each passage printed in Hebrew followed by the Spanish and in the case of Song of Songs the translation is followed by Spanish-language commentary. These works are related in their connection to the Jewish observance of Passover. Song of Songs is read on the Sabbath during Passover and chapters from Perkei Avot are traditionally read one each week between Passover and Shavuot. Pages 1-91 contain Song of Songs and 92-167 contain the text of Perkei Avot. As stated in the preface this is the "Quinta Imprension" Fifith printing of the work based on Belmonte's translation and that it was printed for the congregation of Rabbi Jacob de Mesa in Amsterdam. Title page bordered with a decorative woodblock motif. Decorative head and endpeices at the beginning and end of sections. Some of the translated text of Perkei Avot contains numerous in-text hand-corrections and Hebrew marginal notes in ink from the period. Text in Spanish with passages in Hebrew and some Ladino. Binding with spine missing rubbing and light chipping to extremities. Covers with some creasing scratches and abrasions. Starting at interior covers and some other pages throughout. Some sporadic water stains foxing and smudges throughout. The final section of Pirkei Avot is wormed in the upper corner with minimal loss of text overall. Page 103-104 with a vertical closed tear. A few pages have notes in ink. The final page p.167 containing the final passage of Perkei Avot verse 14 in Hebrew and Spanish is missing. Interior back cover is partially torn away from the board. Name of the previous owner in ink on the interior covers and the bottom of the title page. Binding fairly tight overall. Binding in poor interior good- condition overall. Moses Belmonte 1619 - 1647 Amsterdam was a poet and translator of Portuguese Jewish origin. Alternative titles: "Paraphrasis Caldayca en los Cantares de Selomoh con el Texto Hebrayco y Ladino traduzida en lengua Española" "Paraphrasis Caldaica en los cantares de Selomoh: con el Texto Hebrayco y Ladino traduzida en lengua Española" This copy belonged to Jacob Alvarez-Pereira 1684-1754 who was a prominent Sephardic Jewish merchant. References: Kayserling p.181 under bible; Silva-Rosa 18. Yshak de Cordova hardcover books
1942réf. 45573New York/Port Jervis: The Furrow Press 1942. First edition. Softcover. fair to near fine. This scarce collection includes: "Song Book of the Cejwin Camps/The Camper's Song Pack". 1937. New York. The Furrow Press. Softcover publication. xii 91pp. 5. Green cloth tape over turqoise-colored wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. Printed in a two-column format the publication includes hundreds of songs both secular and Jewish songs with p.51-91 including Hebrew text as well as transliteration. Includes a table of contents at the front and an index at the back. WITH A collection of 45 pieces of ephemera mostly mimeographed: -12 programs for Music Theater Dance and/or marionette performances at the camp 1936-1942 - Seventh Maccabiad Program with song sheet 1940 - V-Day Event Program with song sheet 1942 - "Road to Democracy" event program 1939 - "Hadas News" 1938 vol. 2 #4-5 1939 Vol.3 #7 1940 vol.1 #2-4 plus one undated issue 7 issues - "Marching Song" Song sheet 1938 - 4 individual song sheet 1938-1942 - Undated single sheet - "Esther Echoes" newsletter 3 issues Aug 1941 and Aug 4th 1941 x2 copies - 2 scripts for camp productionsincluding 2 copies of 1 production 1940 - 11 packets or single pages of readings prayers and songs for Sabbath and weekdays services 1941-1942 Some items with some minor to significant chipping to extremities and/or creasing and minor close tears. Song book with some minor rubbing to extremities and creasing to covers. Some chipping to the top right corner of the back cover and a small closed tear on the side. Ink stamp on the back cover. Interior with some closed tears and light creasing to the corners of a few pages. Name of the previous owner in pencil on the initial title page. Book block fairly tight overall. Book in very good- ephemera collection in fair to near fine condition overall. There are no OCLC holdings of this Camp Cejwin version of the "The Camper's Song Pack" publication which includes the 12 preliminary pages of Cejwin material. First opened in 1919 the Cejwin Camps which stood for "Central Jewish Institute" were started by Jewish educators Albert and Bertha Schoolman to "integrate Judaism with the American way of life" - according to the Jewish Theological Seminary. The camps promoted Zionism Judaism and American outdoor and camping culture to the underprivileged children of New York's Jewish community. The organization was ultimately composed of seven camps serving more than 1000 campers. The camps ultimately closed in 1992 but are seem as instrumental and influential in the development of the now successful "Camp Ramah" network of camps. It is considered the first Jewish Summer Camp. The Furrow Press unknown books
1887réf. 51661Tokyo æ±äº¬: Kyoshundo ä¹æ˜¥å ‚ 1887. First edition. Softcover. Very good. Quarto. 22 leaves double-sided fukuro-toji syle. Tan paper string-bound Asian-style wrappers. Black lettering in English on a white paper label pasted on the front cover. This scarce work intended primarily for an English-speaking readership in the West contains biographical text for 10 different Japanese historical and legendary figures. The text for each is accompanied by a beautiful Japanese woodblock-printed illustration in color ukiyo-e. The prints which total 10 double-page images throughout were created by four different Meiji-era woodblock artists and are captioned above bilingually in English and Japanese. Each print includes the artist's signature. The acclaimed artist Ogata Gekko 尾形月耕 1859 - 1920 created 4 prints "Yamato Takeru" "Wake no Kiyomaro" "Taira no Shigemori" and Saigo Takamori the prolific artist Toyohara Chikanobu 豊原周延 1838-1912 created 2 prints "Empress Jingu" and "Kato Kiyomasa" Mizuno Toshikata 水野年方 1866-1908 created 2 prints "Takenouchi no Sukune" and "Kusunoki Masashige" and an as yet unidentified fourth artist created the other 2 prints "Minamoto No Yoshiie" and "Hojo Tokimune". We believe that all images here were created specifically for the book and have found no other external examples or other references for them. The figures covered here are in order: Yamato Takeru Prince Ousu a semi-legendary prince of the Yamato dynasty - the legendary Empress Jingu - the legendary hero statesman and Shinto priest of the first century Takenouchi no Sukune - Wake no Kiyomaro 733-799 an important government official - Minamoto No Yoshiie 1039-1106 among the most acclaimed samurai in Japanese history - Taira no Shigemori 1138-1179 a samurai of the Taira clan during the Heiji Rebellion - Hojo Tokimune 1251-1284 ruler of Japan and leader of the Japanese forces against the Mongol Invasions of Japan - Kusunoki Masashige 1294-1336 an acclaimed samurai - Kato Kiyomasa 1562-1611 a famous daimyo of the Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo periods - famed samurai Saigo Takamori 1928-1877 who was one of the leaders of the Meiji Restoration. As stated in publisher's advertisement in English at the front of the book this is the first volume of what was intended to be larger series of 10 volumes 日本å¤ä»Šå家圖解 Nihon Kokon Meika Zukai illustrating the lives of notable and famous figures in Japanese history. The set was to cover a total of 100 figures 10 per volume. Ultimately only the first two volumes were ever published 1887 and 1890. A third related book also from Kyoshundo was published during this time illustrating famed locations in Japan. This variant of the work contains the main text throughout only in English although the final two pages containing publisher's advertisements and publication information are printed in Japanese as well as the image captions. The other known version of the book which was issued simultaneously has the main text of the book printed trilingually in English Japanese and Kanbun a form of Classical Chinese read in Japan which is no longer used. The first printed page of the book credits "Miki Tecki" Miki Teiichi 三木 貞一 1861-1933 with "Japanese and Chinese" text and Goro Takahashi 高橋 五郎 1856-1935 with English translation. The book contains a number of English typographical errors throughout including on the front cover. Covers with some light smudges and a few small stains. Light pencil markings on the front cover. The string binding has partially come loose with only the middle two strings of four still present and holding. A few leaves have some minor rippling. All images throughout mostly clean. In very good condition overall. The work in is known by a number of variant titles in English: Short Biographies of Emeni Japanese in Ancient and Modern Times - The Pictures and Biographies of a Hundred Eminent Japanese - Nihon Kokon Meika Zukai - Pictures of a Hundred Eminent Japanese Ancient and Modern with Their Biographies - Map of Japan's Ancient and Modern Families literal translation. Kyoshundo (ä¹æ˜¥å ‚) unknown books
1966réf. 55933Paris: Trianon Press 1966. Limited First edition. Softcover. Very good to fine condition. 171/228 hand-numbered on both limitation pages with lithographic signature in English and Hebrew part. Elephant Folio 17 3/16 x 13 5/8 x 2 3/8". XXIII I 135pp. in 4-leaf signatures as issued. Uncut. Original glassine over gilt-lettered stiff parchment wrappers. The book is housed in its original gilt-lettered vellum clamshell box with protective foam cushion silver gilt clasp and protective foam cushion. Contains lithographed illumonated title page and frontispiece. Frontispiece with Ben Shahn signature in plate. The illuminated pages were reproduced by collotype and hand-stenciled in the workshop of MM. Hourdebaigt and Crampe under the direction of Trianon Press. Striking edition of the Haggadah splendidly illustrated throughout with twelve full-page color colotype plates after Shahn's original watercolors ten plates rendered in brown after Shawn drawings two lithographs one with gold leaf and pochoir additions frontispiece and the title page. The illuminated pages were reproduced in colotype and hand-stencil in the workshop of M.M. Hourdebaigt and Crampe and masterfully calligraphed by Ben Shahn. The Haggadah tells the story of the Hebrew people during the scriptural time of their captivity in Egypt and their exodus to freedom. According to Ben Shahn this Haggadah is the reflect of his own memories of the Passover Seder. 1/228 copies on watermarked pure rag Arches Verge paper of which this is No. 171. A total of 292 copies were printed. Text in English and Hebrew. Clamshell box lightly discolored along edges with minor chipping on back cover. Silver clasp tarnished. Box in overall very good wrappers and interior in very good to fine condition. Trianon Press unknown books
réf. 43956Amsterdam: David Fereira y Mosseh Moreno Henriques/ David de Crasto Tartaz David de Castro Tartas 5423. Hardcover. g- to g. Duodecimo. 6.5x4.5". 479pp. Original brown calf boards with gilt-stamped motifs and raised bands on the spine. Blue ribbon marker. Edges of the book block in red. Marbled endpapers. The title page is illustrated with copper plate engravings in the form of small vignettes of biblical scenes surrounding the text. This is an early Spanish-language edition of the complete Jewish High Holiday prayer book Machzor based on the original translation by Abraham Usque originally printed in Ferarra Italy in 1553. This edition contains some added material not previously present including most prominently Solomon ibn Gabirol's famed philosophical poem "Keter Malkhut" Royal Crown which over the years has come to be read as part of the Yom Kippur service in some Jewish traditions. This edition of the Machzor was published by David Fereira and Mosseh Moreno Henriques to serve members of the then sizable Sephardic Jewish community in Amsterdam. A significant portion of the community would have been ex-Marranos Jews who had outwardly converted to Catholicism during the inquisition in Spain who then immigrated and were able to reestablished their Jewish identity and thus were unable to read Hebrew hence the text's publication in Spanish. As stated in the foreword this edition includes some additions to the text not included in previous versions and omits some material deemed to have been unnecessary. The prayer book starts with the penitential prayers Selichot p.3-47 which includes decorative head and endpeices. This section is followed by the Rosh Hashanah service p.48-195 and then the Yom Kippur service including "Keter Malkhut" p.254-289. The title page is illustrated with scenes from the biblical stories of King David Saul and Goliath and contain small captions underneath with corresponding biblical passages in Spanish. There are a number of pagination printing errors including: p.45-46 are misprinted as 54 and 36 p.264 is misprinted as 164. p.450 is misprinted as 350 p.414 is misprinted as 144. Like in the case of the earlier 1652 edition of the work pages 305-352 are misprinted as "321-368" but in this copy the leaf containing p. 353-354 directly following "368" seems to be missing. Overall this edition follows very closely the 1652 edition of the same work in terms of pagination content and organization. Includes large initials throughout the text. All text in Spanish. Binding with rubbing scratches and abrasions to the covers spine and extremities. Some chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Interior front covers with some starting and the loosening of the endpapers. Title page with starting light creases stains and and light chipping on the top left corner resulting in slight loss of image. Some light water staining along the top edge of the pages with some other sporadic light staining throughout. Page 365 torn along the side edge with no loss of text. Starting at a number of pages throughout the book. Binding in good- interior in good condition overall. Binding protected with modern mylar. David ben Abraham de Castro 1630-1698 was a French-born Portuguese Jewish printer/publisher in Amsterdam. Between 1662 and 1701 his press printed the "Gazeta de Amsterdam" a newspaper for the exiled Sephardic Jewish community in Amsterdam. He started his printing career as a typesetter at the printing house of Menasseh Ben Israel a printer and leading Rabbi in community who printed the earliest Amsterdam edition of this work in 1630. Castro started his own business in 1662 making this edition among his earliest publications. References: RODRIGUEZ 1781 p. 643 KAYSERLING 1890 p. 62 PALAU1923 202416 PEETERS1933 1038. David Fereira y Mosseh Moreno Henriques/ David de Crasto Tartaz (David de Castro Tartas) hardcover books
1821réf. 20381Milano: Presso Paolo Antonio Tosi & Comp. Typof Gio. Perottaography 1821. Hardcover. Pebbled cloth spines and corners. Marbled paper pastedown on boards. Very Good. A magisterial work on the immense symbolic and allegorical vocabulary used in painting and sculpture in the early Modern era. While no work could possibly encompass every iconographic essay nor hope to capture the infinite variants on particular iconographic notions this work comes as close as possible and brings order to the subject that probably baffles many a modern museum goer. Plus the illustrations are pleasing in and of themselves. 4to. Vol. 1: xii 17-240 8 pp. Missing pages with descriptions of plates 1 to 8. Vol. 2: 1-240 8 pp. Plate volume: 240 hand-colored etched plates all painted by Pistrucci. Think of a human personality trait or of any allegorical painting's subject and Pistrucci renders a version that captures the typical representation of it. Often times the representation is of a dichotomy such as day and night east and west early and late fertility and sterility. Pistrucci's style befits the mythological tenor of the genre and one can easily imagine the same images as part of the stately decoration of a monument an august public edifice a theater -- the ceiling fresco a frieze a sculpted pediment. Scattered light soiling including occasional foxing. Plates are generally clean and bright. Both volumes rebacked with black cloth spine labels preserved and mounted. Both copies tight. Moderate wear along edges. As mentioned already pages 1-16 missing from the first volume. Presso Paolo Antonio Tosi & Comp. Typof Gio. Perottaography hardcover books
