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1948rif. 35609Paris: Editions A. & J. Oicard et Cie 1948. New edition completely revised. Paperback. vg. Quarto. 560 2 636 2pp. Uncut. Original printed wrappers with publisher's logo on front covers and title pages. Remarkable history of Ancient Israel from the origins to 135 AD when Romans under Hadrian crushed a second Jewish rebellion for independence in a three-year war. Minor age toning along wrappers. Text in French. Wrappers in overall good to very good interior in very good condition. Editions A. & J. Oicard et Cie paperback books
1988rif. 32557Birmingham: The Classics of Medicine Library 1988. Limited edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio.IX 1 128 4pp. Original brown leather with gold tooling on covers and gilt lettering on spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Remarkable facsimile of the first Venetian edition published in 1491 of the Fasciculus Medicinae a “bundle” of six independent and quite different medieval medical treatises. The collection which existed only in two manuscripts handwritten copies was first printed in 1491 in Latin and came out in numerous editions over the next 25 years. Johannes de Ketham the German physician routinely associated with the Fasciculus was neither the author nor even the original compiler but merely an owner of one of the manuscripts. The topics of the treatises cover a wide spectrum of medieval European medical knowledge and technique including uroscopy astrology bloodletting the treatment of wounds plague anatomical dissection and women’s health. The book is remarkable as the first illustrated medical work to appear in print; notable illustrations include: a urine chart a diagram of the veins for phlebotomy a pregnant woman Wound Man Disease Man and Zodiac Man. Binding and interior in as new condition. The Classics of Medicine Library hardcover books
1944rif. 31117London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co. Ltd 1944. Reprint. Hardcover. g. Quarto. XIX 1 394 6pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and medallion in gilt on front cover. Frontispiece. Captivating study of European economic development as a whole during the Middle Ages. This work is illustrated with several b/w photographic reproductions. Offsetting on endpapers. Very minor and sporadic foxing throughout. Binding in overall good to very good interior in good condition. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd hardcover books
1954rif. 31423New York: Las Americas Publishing Co. 1954. First American edition. Hardcover. vg. Octavo. XXXVI 356pp. Original green cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Remarkable book being one of the major works of modern Italian literary-historical scholarship. It is a captivating survey of the predominant intellectual and literary currents of the period between the 14th and the 16th centuries. Gold lettering slightly faded on spine and front cover. Binding in overall good interior in very good condition. Las Americas Publishing Co. hardcover books
1947rif. 26415Paris: Les Editions du Cerf 1947. Softcover. g. Octavo. 274 2pp. Uncut. Original printed wrappers with printer's device on front cover. Fascinating French translation of the work of one of the most distinguished writers of the early Christian Church. Origen's chief aim was the practical exposition of the text verse by verse; and while in such barren books as Leviticus and Numbers he sought to allegorize the wealth of material in the prophets seldom rendered it necessary for him to seek meanings deeper than the surface afforded. Whether the sermons were delivered in series or the homilies on a single book were collected from various series is unknown. The homilies preserved are on Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Joshua Judges I Samuel Psalms Canticles Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel and Luke. This book deals exclusively with Origen's homilies on Exodus. Some age wear on wrappers with spine and edges of covers age-toned. Pages age-toned throughout. Text in French. Wrappers and interior in overall good condition. About the author: born c. 185 probably Alexandria Egypt — died c. 254 Tyre Phoenicia Greek theologian one of the Fathers of the Church. Probably the son of a Christian martyr Origen studied philosophy in Alexandria and served as head of its catechetical school for 20 years. He later settled in Palestine and founded a school of philosophy and theology. He traveled widely as a preacher; he was imprisoned and tortured during the persecutions of the emperor Decius in 250 but survived to die several years later. His greatest work the Hexapla is a synopsis of six versions of the Hebrew scriptures. His writings influenced by Neoplatonism and Stoicism stress that providence seeks to restore all souls to their original blessedness and emphasize the centrality of the Word Logos in the cosmos. He held that even Satan was not beyond repentance and salvation a view for which he was condemned. Although attacked as a heretic Origen remained an influential thinker throughout late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Les Editions du Cerf unknown books
1986rif. 26382Paris: Les Editions du Cerf 1986. First edition. Softcover. vg. Octavo. 236 8pp. Original printed wrappers with printer's device on front cover. Fascinating work being a treatise against Hierocles a Roman governor and Neoplatonic philosopher in which Eusebius combated the former's glorification of Apollonius of Tyana. Minor age-toning on spine. Text in French. Wrappers in overall very good interior in fine condition. About the author: Eusebius of Caesarea c. 263–339 AD called Eusebius Pamphili became the Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine about the year 314. Eusebius historian exegete and polemicist is one of the more renowned Church Fathers. He with Pamphilus was a scholar of the Biblical canon. He wrote "Demonstrations of the Gospel" "Preparations for the Gospel" and "On Discrepancies between the Gospels" studies of the Biblical text. As "Father of Church History" he produced the "Ecclesiastical History" "On the Life of Pamphilus" the "Chronicle" and "On the Martyrs. Les Editions du Cerf unknown books
1977rif. 26477Chicago: Ares Publishers Inc. 1977. First edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. XVI 107 5pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on front board and spine. Printer's device on double title-page. For centuries works on Marinus have been studied separately because no edition included them all in one volume. ARES issues the first edition of Marinus ever printed. The Life of Proclus appears in this edition with the Greek text and the English translation. The Commentary on the Dedomena of Euclid appears in both the Greek text as edited by H. Menge and the French translation with commentary by M. Michaux. Minor age wear on binding with head and tail of spine slightly rubbed. Minor age-toning on spine. Text in Greek English and French.Binding in overall good interior in very good condition. Ares Publishers Inc. hardcover books
1974rif. 24863New York: American Jewish Archives and KTAV Publishing House Inc 1974. First English language edition. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. XII 258pp. Original full cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. First English language edition of this rare work written in French in 1788. It is a fascinating account on the history of the colony of Surinam and of the Surinamese Jewry. Binding and interior in near to fine condition. American Jewish Archives and KTAV Publishing House, Inc hardcover books
1971rif. 14671Leiden: E. J. Brill 1971. Hardcover. vg. 4to. VIII. 131pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine in original dust jacket. Fascinating translation of the book of Job according to the groundbreaking Qumran scrolls. Beautifully illustrated with 32 pages of b/w photograph of both the excavation site and the scrolls itself. Also contains introduction list of abbreviations notes on the translation and an index of words. In French and Hebrew. 1/2" tear to top of dj. Some sunning and staining to dj. Dj in very good book in fine condition. Published in cooperation with the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschaften Academy of Sciences of the Netherlands. E. J. Brill hardcover books
1847rif. 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
1958rif. 20322Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America 1958. Revised. Hardcover. vg. Signed on title page by the editor-in-Chief of the Translation team Harry Orlinsky: A Reform Jew he participated in a number of major translations of the Bible including the Revised Standard Version the New Revised Standard Version and the New Jewish Publication Society translation. In 1969 he wrote a set of notes on his translation of the Pentateuch and his theory of translation which provide a fascinating insight to his thought process. Small 4to. 123pp. Followed by three empty pages for notes and one page listing translation team. Black cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Translation of the Book of Genesis the first Book of the Hebrew Bible into English. Chapter headings in Hebrew according to "Parashat ha-Shavua" weekly Bible portion read in synagogues. Otherwise the book is in English only. Very minor age wear. Clean and tight. In English with some Hebrew see above. Very good condition. The Jewish Publication Society of America hardcover books
1963rif. 19987London: Collier-MacMillan Ltd 1963. Hardcover. vg. This is a presentation copy inscribed by the author at free front endpaper in black pen to his friend and Rabbi Marc Stern: "To my ever-faithful friend Marc Stern the Rav the geneolgist the helper magnamimous in lastingf gratitude. Eric W. April 1987." 8vo. xiii. 545 pp. Including index. 1/2 black cloth over beige cloth with blind embossed lettering to cover and silver lettering to spine. Top edge red. Color frontispiece of Felix Mendelssohn. Work on the renowned composer Felix Mendelssohn illustrated throughout with musical notations. Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy born as Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847 was a German pianist composer and conductor of the early Romantic period. Born to a notable German- Jewish family he is the grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. His work includes concerts oratorios symphonies piano and chamber music. Source: Public Domain. Minor age wear. Very good condition. Collier-MacMillan, Ltd hardcover books
1940rif. 68139Albuquerque NM: The University of New Mexico Press 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Good . Odd volume. 319pp. Quarto 27 cm Red cloth over boards with the title in gilt on the backstrip and front board. Covers cocked. Front hinge soft. No dust jacket. The reconquest of New Mexico by Spain took place in the last decade of the seventeenth century under the leadership of Don Diego de Vargas. The documents contained in this volume form the first complete published account of the first phase of the reconquest of New Mexico a brief but dramatic chapter in the history of the American frontier. The University of New Mexico Press hardcover books
1948rif. 68860Bruges: Desclée de Brouwer et Cie 1948. French-language edition. Paperback. Very Good. 372pp. Quarto 28 cm Gray wraps printed in black and red. With prominent darkening to the spine and large areas of the wraps. Translated for the first time from Greek into French with an introduction and notes by Paul ver Eecke. Collection de Travaux de l'Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences No. 1. Euclid flourished c. 300 bce Alexandria Egypt was the foremost mathematician of Greco-Roman antiquity. Not much is known about his life. He is most known for his treatise on geometry the "Elements." "Euclid understood that building a logical and rigorous geometry and mathematics depends on the foundation—a foundation that Euclid began in Book I with 23 definitions such as 'a point is that which has no part' and 'a line is a length without breadth' five unproved assumptions that Euclid called postulates now known as axioms and five further unproved assumptions that he called common notions. Book I then proves elementary theorems about triangles and parallelograms and ends with the Pythagorean theorem." - Britannica.com. Desclée de Brouwer et Cie paperback books
1955rif. 1395098Oslo Norway: The Limited Editions Club 1955. Limited Edition #301/1500. Hardcover. Large octavo 314 xxiii pages. In Very Good condition with Good plus condition slip case. Slip case has moderate shelving wear scuffing and chipping along extremities. Spine mildly cocked. Signed by Per Krohg on publisher's limitation page. Shelved in hallway overflow. 1395098. Special Collections. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1896rif. 208097Boston: Joseph Knight Company 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. Variorum edition. Volume two only. Octavo. 208-597pp. English French and German translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version with further selections notes biographies bibliography and other material collected and edited by Nathan Haskell Dole. Decorative yellow cloth stamped in green and gilt top edge gilt. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown spine lightly dampstained and cocked small nick on spine head very good. Joseph Knight Company hardcover books
1974rif. 156316New York: Farrar 1974. Softcover. Very Good. Very good in wrappers a paperback. Later printing. Text clean. Corners rubbed. Readers crease on spine. Farrar unknown books
1936rif. 321226New York: Macmillan 1936. Hardcover. xi 187p. first American edition spine faded previous owner's name Leo Rogin minor browning of the end papers else good condition. Macmillan hardcover books
1978rif. 330187Valencia Spain: Pre-Textos 1978. Paperback. 70p. 4.75x7 inches text in Spanish lightly-worn and spine-faded paperback in red and black pictorial wraps. Pre-Textos 20. Originally published in English in 1975. Spanish language edition. Transcript of a radio interview. Pre-Textos paperback books
1926rif. 20168Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Rogers Bruce. 115 pages. 21.5 x 16 cm. Printed in red and black with typography by Bruce Rogers. A vivid glimpse of life in the ninth century; a hitherto scarcely known piece of mediaeval literature. ROGERS 285. Harvard Univ. Press hardcover books
1921rif. 322415New York: Putnam 1921. Hardcover. 226p. frontis-portrait original production and cast note very good first edition in green cloth boards and gilt. Granville Barker's Americanized English language version. Putnam hardcover books
2019rif. 323609Paris: Jeu de Paume 2019. Eight panel program folded to 6x8.25 inches bilingual texts in French & English chronology biographical sketch photos by Hujar vertical fold crease else good condition. Exhibition program to accompany the show publicizing the publication of "Speed of Life Jeu de Paume unknown books
2001rif. 324007Bologna: Edizioni Totalmente Libere - minores 2001. Paperback. 32p. recto & verso pagination duplicated ergo 64p. text consisting of short haiku-like pronouncements apparently quoted from misogynist law softbound in saddle-stitched 8.5x4.5 inch decorated white wraps very neat and professional. Nice copy with the visual remnant of long-gone labels on back cover else clean and sound and marked only by Hirschman's inked presentation inscription on titlepage signed "Jack". Edizioni Totalmente Libere - minores paperback books
1965rif. 318621Tokyo: Kodansha International 1965. Hardcover. 124p. illus. very good first edition in an unclipped and edgeworn dust jacket. Kodansha International hardcover books
1997rif. 306522Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1997. Paperback. 2 35 3p. illustrations wraps. 9.5 x 7.75 in. Reads right to left. Text in Hebrew and English. Presentation inscription to R.B. Kitaj. Scarce catalog of artists’ books produced between 1987 and 1996 with work from over a dozen artists including Marina Abramovic Ed Ruscha and Micha Ullman. Samuel’s presentation inscription on a yellow ruled sticky note to Ronald Brooks Kitaj inserted on the final leaf offering condolences and offering to work on a “book of etchings.” With an essay by Edna Moshenson “Exhibiting My Library.” Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Jeanette Assia Galleries April - July 1997. Tel Aviv Museum of Art paperback books