1934réf. 32450Washington DC: Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Co 1934. First edition. Original black cloth blocked in green; xvi 437 pp. one ad leaf. 3 inch crack in rear endpaper but a very good copy. Illustrations in black red blue and green. There is an inscription on the front endpaper indicating its use by the War Office Selection Board in 1942. The Board was a scheme by British Army psychiatrists to discover and develop officer candidates and Moreno's sociometrics were influential in Eric Trist and Wilfred Bion's experiment of Regimental Nomination where units were encouraged to nominate candidates. Linton C. Freeman identified four defining properties of social network analysis: 1 It involves the intuition that links among social actors are important. 2 It is based on the collection and analysis of data that record social relations that link actors. 3 It draws heavily on graphic imagery to reveal and display the patterning of those links. And 4 it develops mathematical and computational models to describe and explain those patterns. He wrote "Until the 1930s however no one had used all four properties at the same time. Modern social network analysis was introduced by a psychiatrist Jacob L. Moreno and a psychologist Helen Jennings. They conducted elaborate research first among the inmates of a prison later in a reform school for girls. Moreno and Jennings named their approach sociometry." A chapter on psychological geography anticipates the work of the Lettrist International. "Moreno founded psychodrama and pioneered group psychotherapy. Apart from its psychiatric and sociological significance this work contained some of the earliest graphic depictions of social networks— data visualization methods later applied to numerous other disciplines. These images were later called sociograms." Garrison-Morton-Norman 7700. Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Co unknown books
1763réf. 5098Regensberg: J.L. Montag 1763. With 3 engraved hand-coloured plates by B.G. Fridrich. An uncut and partially unopened copy disbound. Small stamp on tile; an excellent copy. Second edition of this valuable study on insects based on the author's microscopic observations. He here illustrates the life cycles of several types of insects that live in water and gives a detailed description of each insect depicted. Schäffer 1718-90 an early entomologist wrote numerous scientific treatises especially on vertebrate zoology. This edition is quite rare with only 4 copies located. J.L. Montag unknown books
1888réf. 102057Folio 12" x 15" publisher's leather somewhat crudely rebacked gilt title on front cover illustrated with engraved frontispiece and 119 chromolithographed plates with tissue guards 182 8 pp. Binding shaken top cover and spine and front endpapers partially separated from text block back joint cracked but still attached significant wear to covers around extremities bookplate on front pastedown; contents clean and bright. Published in several editions the plates are extremely attractive. Studer 1840-1904 was born in New York City and would become a printer and lithographer. He was also an ornithologist and seems to have been active in this field in the Columbus Ohio area after the Civil War. However it is believed that the plates were based on drawings by Theodore Jasper. The plates while very attractive are believed to be designed to help with identification. Size of book will require extra postage. online Cornell library website. The Natural Science Association of America, books
1778réf. 42819Venetiis: ex typographia Johannis Gatti . superiorum facultate 1778. Editio novissima folio 2 volumes in 1 pp. x 446; 458 22 Verba barbara ex Calepini 80 Vocabulario Italiano e Latino . per uso delle scuole di gramatica; primary title page printed in red and black and with woodcut vignette lexicon in double column appendices in triple column contemporary calf-backed paper-covered boards brown morocco label on spine; some rubbing and wear but generally a good sound copy or better. A late edition but under the editorship of the renowned philologist Jacobo Faccolati 1682-1769 who was both a philologist and lexicographer at Padua. His edition of Calepino was first published at Padua in 1718. It is here re-edited by Jean-Baptiste Gallicciolli. Labarre 210; Vancil p. 44. ex typographia Johannis Gatti ... superiorum facultate unknown books
1929réf. 47974Paris: L'Edition d'Art 1929. Edition limited to 2400 copies this one of 2000 of the regular issue no. 1057 4to pp. 117 3; decorative title page illustrated initials and decorations throughout and 12 mounted color plates by Nielsen; slightly later full green morocco the binding unsigned incorporating stars in the top left corner of the upper cover and anacanthus leaves in the lower right corner gilt lettering direct on spine a.e.g.; lightly rubbed; near fine. L'Edition d'Art unknown books
1929réf. 45627Paris: L'Edition d'Art 1929. Edition limited to 2400 copies this one of 2000 of the regular issue no. 659 4to pp. 117 3; decorative title page illustrated initials and decorations throughout and 12 mounted color plates by Nielsen; original wrappers bound in; contemporary full unadorned vellum and slipcase the slipcase lacking the top edge; all else near fine. L'Edition d'Art unknown books
1888réf. 26485New York: Natural Science Assn. of America 1888. Large 4to pp. 10 182; title-p. printed in red and black; engraved portrait frontispiece 119 chromolithograph plates "representing upwards of seven hundred different species and varieties of North American birds including a popular account of their habits and characteristics." Original maroon cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on upper cover t.e.g. the whole recased and rebacked in black pebble-grain cloth gilt-lettered direct on spine; tissue guards browning but otherwise a nice copy. Another edition of Nissen I 473; Sitwell Fine Bird Books 1700-1900 p.145. Natural Science Assn. of America unknown books
1969réf. 38732New York: The Hebrew Actors Union of America 1969. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Large Quarto. xiv vi vii 8 xvi 6132 222 271 182pp. Continuos pagination. Original green cloth with gilt-stamped lettering on spine volume one and black cloth with gilt-stamped illustration and lettering on cover lettering on spine volumes 2-6. The six volumes were published in three countries over a period of 38 years. The information and entries were collected by many volunteers and in short biographies look at the lives of those who were involved in professional Yiddish Theater around the world. Illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs showing actors directors producers designers singers composers and musicians. The majority of entries include a portrait place of birth list of accomplishments in Yiddish Theater place and cause of death. Includes bibliography for each entry. Vol. I: New York 1931. Vol. II: Warsaw 1934. Vol. III: New York 1959. Vol. IV: New York 1963. Vol. V: Mexico D. F. 1967. Holocaust memorial volume listing individuals persecuted by the Nazi's as well as theater organizations. Vol. VI: Mexico D. F. 1969. Vols. II through VI with illustrated title pages Vol IV with frontispiece photograph. Volumes V & VI with Spanish and Yiddish all other volumes with English and Yiddish title pages with Main text in Yiddish in two columns. Laid in the art section of the Jewish Daily "Forward" with numerous photographs e.g. Theodor Herzl Albert Einstein a section of the audience celebrating the international labor holiday in New York's Hippodrome in 1939 and many others. Volume I with block loose attached only at title page with some fraying at head and tail of spine; rubbed. Volume II with light fraying at head and tail of spine; rubbed. All others with light wear along edges light bumps and rubbing. Binding of volume I in fair all others good to very good interior in good to very good condition. The most comprehensive biographic and encyclopedic reference work on Yiddish Theatre. Scarce complete set. The Hebrew Actors Union of America hardcover books
1675réf. 12522Nuremburg: J. von Sandart 1675. Copper engraving with early colour. Printed on laid paper. Title in manuscript ink on verso of sheet. Cleveland Historical Society collection stamp on verso of sheet. Numerous tears and creases in outside margins which have been expertly repaired. Center fold has been strengthened. An early map of Africa by the great mapmaker Jacob von Sandrart engraved by Homann. Sandrart's stunning map of Africa is a close copy of Fredrik de Wit's map 'Nova Africa Descriptio' published in 1660. With the prime meridian running through Ferro Island the map is typical of late seventeenth century maps of Africa. Like other maps of the period Sandrart has included a highly decorative and informative cartouche in the lower left corner of the sheet. Homann's continental cartouches aspired to convey the natural history as well as the costume and manner of life of the human inhabitants. Here while a woman peacefully nurses her baby in a hammock a native chief stares out at the viewer from under the shade of a large umbrella. On the right side of the vignette two riders on horseback one with a cutlass and one with a decaptitated head ride by a river where one man is attacking another with his sword. Among the humans are a lion a snake a reptile of some sort and another fox-like animal. Although the map repeats De Wit's decorations it relies on Ptolemy for its description of the Nile basin. It is to some degree remarkable that seventeenth century maps of the interior of Africa were filled with geographical features and named locations since there had been very little European exploration of the interior at this date. European trade took place at specific locations along the coast and almost nothing was known about the interior of the dark continent except through rumor. This is a fascinating map by Sandrart and one of only two maps engraved by Homann before 1690. Born at Frankfurt-on-Main Jacob von Sandrart was one of the most esteemed mapmakers in Nuremberg at the close of the seventeenth century. He learned his trade from his uncle Joachim von Sandrart and from Cornelius Danckerts. As with this impressive map all of Sandrart's charts are filled with a wealth of decorative details and highly ornate cartouches. J. von Sandart unknown books
1935réf. 59294New York: The Daily Worker 1935. First Edition. First printing. Limited issue; no. 50 of 100 clothbound copies signed by Burck. Quarto; tan buckram with titles and decorations stamped in brown on front and rear covers; 247pp. A lovely fine copy free of soiling or wear. There was a simultaneous trade issue in pictorial wrappers. The very scarce limited issue of this compilation of Burck's Depression-era cartoons most originally published in the Daily Worker and The New Masses. Burck trained at the Art Students' League under Boardman Robinson; became the full-time editorial cartoonist for the Daily Worker in 1929 and worked as a political cartoonist for the rest of his life though following a 1936 trip to the Soviet Union he renounced Communism and began working for mainstream periodicals including the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the Chicago Daily Times. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1941; survived a period of persecution during the 1950s Red Scare and continued to produce new work until shortly before his death in 1982. This volume quite scarce and the few copies we have seen previously were well-worn. The Daily Worker unknown books
1848réf. 433851848. Berzelius Jöns Jacob 1779-1848. Jacobus Berzelius. Medal in bronze showing a right-facing bust of Berzelius on the obverse with his birth and death dates in roman numerals; the reverse with a standing winged figure and the seated figure of Hygeia along with text in Latin. Signed "P. H. Lundgren fec. - C. G. Quarnstroem inv." N.p. n.d. 1848. 57 mm. diameter. A few minor scratches and dings but very good. The Berzelius Medal was commissioned by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in memory of the famous Swedish chemist who is regarded as one of the founders of modern chemistry. Berzelius invented the current system of chemical symbols originated the duality theory of chemical affinity classing chemical elements as either electronegative or electropositive an ancestor of 20th century electron theories of bonding developed new and important methods of chemical synthesis and analysis and discovered the elements cerium selenium and thorium. T he Latin motto above the figures on the reverse reads "Naturam jussit vires proferre latentes" He commanded forth the secrets of nature. The text below the figures reads "Fundatorum supremo lugens in deepest mourning/ Medic. Suec. Societas." The medal was issued in silver bronze and Berlin iron; this is an example of the bronze. Storer Medicina in Nummis no. 337. . unknown books
1721réf. 673061721. Scarce Treatise by Jacob on Common Civil and Canon Law Jacob Giles 1686-1744. A Treatise of Laws: Or A General Introduction to the Common Civil and Canon Law. In Three Parts. I. The Common Law of England: Illustrated in Great Variety of Maxims &c. Also the Use of this Law; With References to Statutes in All Cases. II. Of the Civil Law Intermix'd With the Law of Nations and Its Use Here in England; and a Parallell Between Civil Law and Common Law. III. The Canon Law and Laws Ecclesiastical; Containing the Authority and Rights of the English Clergy; Of Patrons and Churches; Courts Ecclesiastical Trials &c. The Whole Adapted to the Use of Students and Practicers of the Law; Students of the Universities; Civilians Proctors Ecclesiasticks and All Young Gentlemen. London: Printed for T. Woodward and J. Peele 1721. ii vi 6 533 15 pp. Octavo 8" x 5". Contemporary calf rebacked retaining existing spine with raised bands and lettering piece blind rules to boards blind fillets along joints front hinge mended. A few minor nicks and scuffs to boards some rubbing to extremities corners bumped joints just starting at ends rear hinge cracked. Moderate toning to text somewhat heavier in places brief early annotations to a few passages. A nice copy of a scarce title. $950. First edition one of two issues from 1721. This title is unique in Jacob's prolific output because it discusses civil and canon law at length. The mention of "civilians proctors clergy and gentlemen" in the subtitle is significant. Jacob though certainly interested in boosting sales by attracting the widest audience possible was an idealist who believed that widespread knowledge of the law would help create a more just society. Counting both issues OCLC locates 9 copies in North American law libraries. Jefferson owned a copy of this edition: Sowerby Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 1804. English Short-Title Catalogue N13977. unknown books
réf. 22199Berlin: Hans Heinrich Tillgner n/d. Sonderheft Special edition. Softcover. g. 4to. 32pp. Printed original wraps protected by modern mylar. Rare special edition of the German periodical Der Feuerreiter honoring the German artist poet and printmaker Ludwig Meidner 1884-1966. Meidner's works were part of the Nazi book burning in 1933 being Jewish he fled to England in 1939. Illustrated with an original numbered 63/100 etching frontispiece and two original lithographs by Meidner. Etching signed by Meidner in pencil lithos with artist's initials. Age wear and creasing to wraps. 1 1/2" of backstrip on head of spine missing tail of spine chipped. Wraps repaired with tape. Wraps almost completely detached. Waterstaining on lower right corner throughout not affecting text or plates same corner bumped throughout. Etching almost detached from book block. Top right corner of page 31 repaired with tape. Text in German Gothic script. Wraps in fair interior in overall good to very good condition. Inhalt contents: Frauenbildnis Originalradierung / Nur dies ist das wahre Wort / Von der Armut / Vom rechten Gebrauch irdischer Gabe / Mutter du mystische Frau / Ludwig Meidner: Kopf Originallithographie / Oskar Walzel: Der Dichter Ludwig Meidner / Fred von Zollikhofer: An Ludwig Meidner / Hugo Marcus: Drei Begegnungen / Johannes R. becher: An Ludwig Meidner / Willi Wolfradt: Der Maler und Zeichner Ludwig Meidner / Fred von Zollikhofer; Der Verwndelte / Heinrich Eduard Jacob: Notizen zur apokalyptischen Kunstform / Fritz Gottfurcht: Zur Definition des Bühnenraums. Hans Heinrich Tillgner unknown books
1829réf. 19297Konigsberg: Borntraeger 1829. First edition. With 1 large folding table. Contemporary marbled pasteboards worn; other than some darkening to the paste-down and flyleaf a fine copy. First edition of the author’s celebrated work in the field of elliptic functions. This treatise contains an exhaustive inquiry into the basic properties of these functions and proposes a new inversion technique. Jacobi 1804-51 a brilliant mathematician made contributions in such diverse areas as calculus of variations the theory of numbers differential equations and the theory of determinants. Poggendorff I p. 1179; Zeitlinger I 2111. Borntraeger unknown books
1993réf. 51927New York: Garland Publishing Inc 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. 10 vols. Double column text. Each volume is approx. 250pp. All are uniformly bound in brown cloth with white lettering on spine. A fine as new set. "America confronts Judaism with the challenge and the opportunity of addressing Jews in a free Society. The new politics defined by American freedom has reshaped the circumstances of Judaism and called forth revisions reforms and redefinitions of various kinds in response to the shifts in the political conditions under which successive generations of Jews in America formed their Judaism." Neusner The individual titles are: V1: The Challenge of America: Can Judaism Survive in Freedom V2: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust. V3: Israel and Zion in American Judaism: The Zionist Fulfillment. V4: Judaism and Christianity: The New Relationship. V5: The Religious Renewal of Jewry. V6: The Reformation of Reform Judaism. V7: Conserving Conservative Judaism: Reconstructionist Judaism. V8: The Alteration of Orthodoxy. V9: The Academy and Traditions of Jewish Learning. V10: The Rabbinate in America: Reshaping an Ancient Calling. The contents of each individual volume in detail are: V1 = Introduction --- Assimilation Integration Segregation -The road to the future/ Jacob B. Agus --- the Jew Who Didn't Get Away: On the Possibility of an American Jewish Culture/ Robert Alter --- What's American about American Jewry / Joseph L. Blau --- Reflections on Assimilation in America/ Jerome Braum --- The Blessing of Assimilation in Jewish History/ Gerson D. Cohen --- The Jewish People in Metamorphosis/ Moshe Davis --- The institutional Life of American Jewry/ Daniel J. Elazar --- The American Jewish Experience / Isaac Franck --- Nostalgia Is Not Enough / Ruth Gay --- Social Characteristics of American Jews 1654-1954 / Nathan Glazer --- The Crisis in American Jewry/ Nathan Glazer --- Old Habits Die Hard: Judaism in The Encyclopedia of Religion/ William Scott Green --- The Jewish Consensus / Ben Halpern --- The Evolution Of Jewish Identity / Arthur Hertzberg --- The Death and Rebirth of the Jewish People in America / Eugene S. Mornell --- The Jewish Religious Experience in America: The Problem of Interpretation / Jacob Neusner --- Assimilation and Self-Hatred in Modern Jewish Life / Jacob Neusner --- Freedom's Challenge to Judaism / Jacob Neusner --- From Theology to Ideology: The Transmutation Of Judaism in Modern Times / Jacob Neusner --- The Role of Judaism in America / Jack Riemer --- The New Jewish Identity in America / Stuart E. Rosenberg --- American Jewry the Ever-dying People / Marshall Sklare V2 = The Holocaust in American-Jewish fiction: a slow awakening / Alexander E. -- Stealing the Holocaust / Alexander E. -- European Jewry before and after Hitler / Baron S.W. -- The nativization of the Holocaust / Berenbaum M. Approaching the Holocaust / Berkovits E. -- The question and the answers after Auschwitz / Cain S. -- Studying the Holocaust's impact today: some dilemmas of language and method / Eckardt A. & R. The Holocaust and Jewish theology / Eckstein J. -- The human condition after Auschwitz: a Jewish testimony a generation after / Fackenheim E.L. -- The Holocaust and future Jewish thought / Fackenheim E.L. The reasoning of Holocaust theology / Feuer L.S. -- Elie Wiesel's Messianism of the unredeemed / Friedman M. -- A "Holocaust" primer / Neusner J. -- The implications of the Holocaust / Neusner J. Judaism in a time of crisis: four responses to the destruction of the Second Temple / Neusner J. -- Journey to Poland / Rubenstein R.L. -- Germany and the Jews: two views / Rubenstein R.L. & Neusner J. A Jewish theology for post-Holocaust healing / Schulweis H.M. -- The Holocaust and the American Jewish intellectual / Whitfield S.J. -- Faith and the Holocaust / Wyschogrod M. V3 = Zionism and Judaism / Adam Y. -- Seeking ease in exile / Alexander E. -- Where is Zion / Alexander E. -- Liberalism and Zionism / Alexander E. -- Zionism as Americanism / Auerbach J.S. American Jews and Israel: Two views II / Eisenberg J.M. -- An agenda for conservative Judaism in Israel / Fishman H. -- American Jews and Israel: Two views I / Gittelsohn R.B. A strategy for non-orthodox Judaism in Israel / Gottschalk A. -- Judaism and the Land of Israel / Hertzberg A. -- Israeli imperatives and Jewish agonies / Horowitz I.L. & Zeitlin M. Zionism the ideal and an idea of religion / Lang B.B. -- Judaism and the Zionist problem / Neusner J. -- A stranger at home: an American Jew visits in Israel / Neusner J. -- Zionism and "The Jewish problem" / Neusner J. Diaspora Judaism: an abnormality The testimony of history / Petuchowski J.J. -- Zionist polemics in a post-Zionist age / Petuchowski J.J. -- The tasks of Israel and galut / Polish D. Israel: the ever-dying people / Rawidowicz S. -- Can there be a revival of Zionist ideology / Rotenstreich N. -- Israel and American youth / Sanders R. Israel galut and Zionism: the changed scene / Shmueli E. -- Whither diaspora Judaism / Sigal P. -- Reform and Conservative Judaism in Israel: aims and platforms / Tabory E. V4 = Jewish-Christian relationships in America / Bernards S.S. -- The man of dialogue and the man of halakhah / Birnbaum R. -- Christian silence of Israel: an end to dialogue / Diamond M.L. The achievements and trials of interfaith / Eckardt A. and R. -- Jewish-Christian relations / Tanenbaum M.H. -- The future of Jewish-Christian relations / Falwell J. Zionism the State of Israel and the Jewish-Christian dialogue / Flannery E.H. -- About the Judeo-Christian tradition; The Judeo-Christian tradition concept / Heller B. -- Interfaith relations in the United State / Kertzer M.N. Protestants and Jews / LaSor W.S. -- The American mainline churches and Israel / Lewis M. -- Christians and Jews in the historical process / Littell F.H. -- How shall a believing Jew view Christianity / Matt H. The Catholic church and the Jews: the Vatican's new guidelines / Poliakov L. -- The Protestant establishment and the Jews / Rubenstein R.L. -- Judaism scriptures and ecumenism / Schwarzschild S.S. Christian-Jewish relations: still a way to go / Siegman H. -- American Jews and the Protestant community / Strober G.S. -- A new stage in Jewish-Christian dialogue / Wyschogrod M. V5 = Judaism in the post-Christian era / Berkovits E. -- The national religious institutions of American Jewry / Etzioni A. -- The role of the synagogue in the American Jewish community / Feldman A.J. The A-thological Judaism of the American community / Frimer N.E. -- The ordination of women / Gordis R. -- Those entitled to be Jews / Halpern B. -- Religious trends in American Jewry / Herberg W. The integration of the Jew in contemporary America / Herberg W. -- The American Jew and his religion / Hertzberg A. -- The nation and the individual / Heschel A.J. -- A love-letter to my congregation / Laderman M. "Who hast not made me a man": the movement for equal rights for women in American Jewry / Lerner A.L. -- Jews by choice: their impact on the contemporary American Jewish community / Mayer E. An experience of prayer / Neusner J. -- Judaism in the secular age / Neusner J. -- Synagogue and center: the symposium in retrospect / Neusner J. -- The passing of Jewish secularism in the United States / Parzen H. Power in a midwestern Jewish community / Roseman K.D. -- The intellectual and contemporary Jewish life / Rubenstein R.L. Is the synagogue becoming a church the Rabbi a Priest Religious and secular aspects of the Jewish community / Siegman H. -- The sociology of the American synagogue / Sklare M. Sacred survival: American Jewry's civil religion / Woocher J.S. -- My "commentary" problem -- and ours / Wyschogrod M. V6 = The nature and task of liberal Judaism / Agus J.B. -- Reform Jewish outreach: opportunities and challenges for the 1980s / Belin D. -- Reform Judaism in America / Cohon S.S. -- The challenges of Halakhah / Ellenson D. Reform is a verb / Fein L.J. -- Reform and conservative Judaism: Their mutual relationship / Gordis R.; Heller J.G. -- Conservative and reform / Eisenstein I. -- Reform and conservative Judaism / Feuer L.I. Conservatism and reform -- shall they merge -- Reform Judaism's adaptation to America / Karff S.E. -- Zionism and reform Judaism: responses to modernity / Langer M. -- Reform Judaism in America: its problems and tasks / Levy F.A The reform synagogue: plight and possibility / Levy R.N. -- The limits of liberal Judaism / Petuchowski J.J. -- A century of reform Judaism in America / Temkin S.D. V7 = The Conservative movement: The "Reconstructionist" Movement / Agus J.B. -- Conservative Judaism as a unifying force / Arzt M. -- Toward a theology of experience / Cohen J.J. -- The maturation of Conservative Judaism in America / / Cohen G.D. -- The Rabbi Halakhah and the Rabbinical Assembly / Dresner S.H. -- The return of paganism / Dresner S.H. -- Jewish tradition in twentieth century America: the Conservative approach / Friedman T. Is Conservative Judaism -- Conservative / Gertel E.B. -- Inside or outside Emancipation and the dilemmas of Conservative Judaism / Gillman N. -- Manpower for Conservative Judaism / Ginzberg E. The values of Jewish education / Heschel A.J. -- Toward an understanding of Halacha / Heschel A.J. -- Comments upon "Unity and Diversity in the Conservative Movement" / Kohn J.; Garten S.; Auerbach S.S.; & Kussy S. A century of Conservative Judaism in the United States / Karp A.J. -- The American Jewish experience: a Conservative perspective / Kushner H.S. -- Conservative Judaism in a divided community / Neusner J. The sources of our disunity / Schorsch I. -- Reconstructionism and Conservative Judaism / Schwarz S.H. -- Theology Torah and the Man of Today / Siegel S. Recent developments in Conservative Judaism / Sklare M. -- The ideology of the Conservative movement / Waxman M. -- Halakhah and ideology in Conservative Judaism / Yutter A.J. V8 = The Orthodox Stream / Agus J.B. -- A contemporary Rabbinical school for Orthodoxy Jewry / Berkovits E. -- Authentic Judaism and Halakhah / Berkovits E. -- Trends in the American Yeshiva today / Fasman O.Z. Will there be Orthodox women Rabbis / Greenberg B. -- The ambiguous modern Orthodox Jew / Kaplan L. -- The death of Judaism and the birth of Judaisms / Neusner J. -- A challenge of orthodoxy / Rackman E. American orthodoxy -- retrospect and prospect / Rackman E. -- Truth and wisdom: an Orthodox approach / Rackman E. -- Conservatism and the Orthodox resurgence / Riskin S. Orthodoxy resurgent / Schnall D.J. -- Denominationalism and the American experience: and Orthodox view / Wurzburger W.S. -- The Conservative view of Halakhah is non-traditional / Wurzburger W.S. V9 = Jewish studies in American liberal-arts colleges and universities / Band A.J. -- Study of religion / Cain S. -- An embarrassment of riches: on the condition of American Jewish Scholarship in 1969 / Cohen G.D. Jewish philosophy in the academy / Fackenheim E.L. -- Jewish history and American education / Feldman E. -- Jewish survival and the college campus / Greenberg I. The Jewish college student and the intellectual community / Himmelfarb M. -- Anti-semitism in the academy: some pages of the past / Hook S. -- The Rabbi on campus / Israel R.J. The Jew on the college campus / Jospe A. -- Jewish academies in the United States: their achievements culture and politics / Lipset S.M & Ladd E.C. Jr. -- "Being Jewish" and studying about Judaism / Neusner J. Graduate education in Judaica: problems and prospects / Neusner J. -- The new setting for Jewish learning: towards a theory of University studies in Judaism / Neusner J. with responses by Green W.S. and Goldberg A.S. Professors or curators Universities or museums: the case of Jewish studies / Neusner J. -- Stranger at home: the task of religious studies / Neusner J. -- The university as a locus for the Judaic life of intellect / Neusner J An interview with Jacob Neusner / Novak W. -- Jewish studies in America -- present problems and future prospects / Roth N. -- Religion and the academic community: the creative tensions of faith and learning / Rubenstein R.L. The American university and Jewish learning / Silver D.J. -- The problem of contemporary Jewish studies / Sklare M. -- The ideology of the Founders of Jewish Scientific Research / Wiener M. V10 = Inner Dynamics of the Rabbinate / Bloom Jack H. -- The Seminary and the Modern Rabbi / Cohen Arthur -- The Function of the Rabbi / Glazer Nathan -- The Role of the Rabbi Today / Gordis Robert -- The Rabbinate--A Restless Body of Men / Greenberg Ephraim -- The Rabbinate and the Jewish Community Structure / Greenberg Simon -- The Changing American Rabbinate / Hertzberg Arthur -- The Intellectual and the Rabbi / Himmelfarb Milton -- The Synagogue in America / Kelman Wolfe -- The End Is Where We Start From. / Lenn Theodre I. -- The Changing Rabbinate: A Search for Definition / Rabinowitz Stanley and Hertzberg Arthur -- The Inner Life of the Rabbi / Reichert V. E. and Kramer M. and Einhorn E. F. -- The American Rabbi in Transition / Routtenberg Max J. -- A Rabbi Dies / Rubinstein Richard L. -- Studying at Hebrew Union College 1942-1945 / Rubinstein Richard -- The Future of Rabbinic Training in America. A Symposium // with 11 authors -- The Conservative Rabbinate--In Quest of Professionalism / Zelizer Viviana A. and Gerald L. -- Acknowledgments. Garland Publishing, Inc hardcover books
réf. 267682 vols. X 127 VI 132 pp. critical catalogue by the Countess of Radnor and William Barclay Squire of the important British collection of Italian French Dutch Flemish and English paintings dating primarily between the 16th and 18th centuries introd. by the Earl of Radnor ext. notes appendices incl. concordance with earlier catalogues biogr. index of painters index of portraits 101 fine photogravure plates. Folio. Cloth. London Chiswick Press 1909. One of 200 privately printed copies on handmade paper. Much of the provenance information contained in this work is published for the first time following research by Helen Matilda the Countess of Radnor. Some of the paintings are attributed to Hobbema Rubens Van Dyck Holbein Poussin and Claude Lorrain among others. In this copy several items are tipped onto endpapers including a letter from the Earl of Radnor and newspaper clippings showing a few paintings. unknown books
1974réf. 563090Jackson: University Press of Mississippi 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 238pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Near fine with an abrasion on the front free endpaper and slightly bumped corners in a near fine dust jacket with a short tear and very light wear. Memoir of educator Jacob L. Reddix first president of Mississippi Negro Training School now Jackson State University. University Press of Mississippi hardcover books
réf. 3904New York: The Macmillan Company 1902. Hardcover. 8vo blue cloth with gilt-stamped cover and spine. viii-xiii 443 pp. 2 pp. ads. Illustrated throughout with 2 letters 4 pp. of manuscript on 2 leaves 9" x 6"; portrait of Riis clipped from a magazine affixed to half-title. The autobiography of social reformer Jacob Riis along with two letters from Riis to influential Ellis Island immigration doctor Victor Safford. First published in 1901 this is a 1902 printing. Riis's autobiography begins with his youth in Denmark including his initially one-sided bond with his beloved wife Elizabeth and his many struggles and ventures after emigrating to New York as a young man. A fiercely successful immigrant Riis came to prominence in 1890 with the publication of How the Other Half Lives his exposé of life in the immigrant slums of New York illustrated with reproductions of his own photographs. His motivation to document these people and their living conditions prompted him to become a pioneer of flash photography. His numerous books and articles published on the subject of urban poverty brought him into contact and friendship with Theodore Roosevelt who also espoused his cause. The letters are addressed to "My Dear Doctor" identified in a pencil inscription on one letter as Dr. M. Victor Safford an Ellis Island medical doctor and officer who was a staunch practitioner of what Emmanuelle Birn calls "snapshot diagnoses" Dolmage: the routine practice of assessing the medical status of hopeful immigrants based on the smallest cues from their unwitting movements upon arrival-usually in combination with other standards associated with the officer's perception of their culture race or ethnicity. In both letters Riis is evidently responding to a series of articles written by Safford which the latter is attempting to publish. In the first letter dated April 28 1903 Riis writes: "I have read your articles with great interest and can suggest nothing to change." He continues: "Why do you not offer it to the Atlantic." and muses over the possibilities of submission and relative advantages of that paper to the Boston Herald. The second letter dated May 3 of the same year responds to Safford's apparently ongoing attempts to get the series published as such rather than allowing the articles to be separated by a paper whose audience is "engaged." Riis writes: Your article on the Italian in all its brevity is such a clear headed conclusion to the understanding of that kind of immigration that I hope more than ever you can persuade the Atlantic to take the whole series. They would certainly take that article but it ought all to be published. Safford was deeply involved in immigration policy from the late 1800s into the 1920s when he wrote a memoir on the topic. He spearheaded the creation of the "List of Races or Peoples" in order to keep track of "people who maintain recognized communities" Smith but as a member of the Immigration Restriction League was criticized by those who wanted to track racial status only in order to foster and maintain multiculturalism. This volume belonged to the Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives Stephen S. Jewett 1858-1932 whose name is inscribed on the flyleaf in pencil along with the date "July 14 1902." REFERENCES: Smith Marian L. "Race Nationality and Reality" in Prologue Magazine vol. 34 no. 2; Dolmage J. "Disabled Upon Arrival: The Rhetorical Construction of Disability and Race at Ellis Island" in The Disability Studies Reader pp. 47-50. CONDITION: A near fine bright clean copy with just a touch of wear at extremities. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902 unknown books
1839réf. 430451839. Einige Blicke auf die Entwicklungsgeschichte des vegetabilischen Organismus bei den Phanerogamen. Offprint from Archiv für Naturgeschichte 3 1837: 289-320. Plate. 206 x 126 mm. Original plain wrappers front wrapper detached; modern bookplate. Inscribed by Schleiden to William Francis on the front wrapper. Botanische Notizen. Offprint from Archiv für Naturgeschichte 4 1838: 49-66. Plate. 205 x 129 mm. Original plain wrappers sun-darkened detached; modern bookplate. Inscribed by Schleiden to William Francis inscription partially lost due to sunning Botanische Notizen. Offprint from Archiv für Naturgeschichte 5 1839: 253-292. Plate. 214 x 128 mm. Original plain wrappers small tear in lower margin; modern bookplate. Inscribed by Schleiden to William Francis on the front wrapper. Botanische Notizen. Offprint from Archiv für Naturgeschichte 5 1839: 211-234. Lacking plate. Original plain wrappers back wrapper lacking; modern bookplate. Inscribed by Schleiden to William Francis on the front wrapper. A collection of four extremely rare offprints on botanical science by Schleiden whose landmark 1838 paper "Beiträge zur Phytogenesis" marks the beginning of cell theory and plant cytology. The first offprint is on the development of organs in phanerogams plants with seeds; "his theory of the flower and fruit is an admirable performance for the time even though we abandon his view of the stalk nature of placentas and some other notions as we obviously must. As Robert Brown founded the history of the development of the ovule so Schleiden founded that of the flower and his example influenced other botanists" Von Sachs History of Botany 1530-1860. Schleiden presented these offprints to British chemist Dr. William Francis who in 1852 joined with publisher Richard Taylor to found the firm of Taylor and Francis. unknown books
1946réf. 50723Munich cancel imprint in English: Rabbinical Representative by Central Commitee sic of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied Zone 1946. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good. Elephant folio 15-3/4" x 11". 2 192 32 28pp. Rebound in modern tan soft leather with blind-stamped star of David on the front cover. Gilt and blind-stamped tooling and gilt lettering on the spine. Raised bands. Decorative endpapers. Pictorial title page printed in black & red against a yellow the color Jews were forced to wear background. It depicts both the suffering and the hope for redemption of the Jewish people. The bottom shows life in the concentration camp and the top shows the yearning for a new Jerusalem. The images are attributed to the artist Grisha Rosenkranz who was active in the DP camps. Text in Hebrew states: "As afflicted prisoners there we sat learned and prayed in secret." This volume of "Keddushin" the first of the two printed was the precursor to the famous full 19-volume set known as the "Survivors' Talmud" or the "US Army Talmud" so-called because it was the first complete Talmud printed in Europe after the Holocaust. At the end of the war Jewish survivors and residents of the DP camps had few or no books. The efforts to provide resources to Jews without access to Talmud study in the direct aftermath of the war fell primarily upon the shoulders of two Lithuanian Rabbis Samuel Abba Snieg chief rabbi of the US occupied zone and Samuel Jacob Rose both survivors of Dachau. It was accomplished utilizing two odd volumes of the 1886 Romm edition of the Talmud printed in Vilna tractates Keddushin and Nedarim found at the monastery in St. Ottilien. Printing plates for these volumes were created using a photomechanical offset process. It should be noted that when the full set of the Talmud was eventually published it was derived from the later Vilna editions which contain additional rabbinic commentary not found in the earlier editions. The rabbis' intent from the very beginning was to print a complete set of the Talmud however these two tractates were the only ones found in good enough to reproduce. Later with the assistance of Rabbis Philip S. Bernstein and Abraham Klausner they were able to print a complete set in Heidelberg in 1948 The Survivors' Talmud. There is some dampstain rippling to the lower fifth of the text with an attendant tidemark that is mostly in the blank bottom margin but occasionally extends into the text readability is not affected. Scarce. Alternate title: Survivors' Talmud Grisha Rosenkranz aka Gregory Rosenkranz was a Lithuanian-born Jewish artist and Hebrew teacher. In addition to his work on the illustrations for these volumes of the Talmud he was an active artist in the DP camps after the war and was known to have designed a theater sets for a play produced in the camps. Later he emigrated to the United States eventually settling in Miami where he taught Hebrew Jewish studies and art. He also created art for the PBS TV program 'Living Hebrew'. With thanks to Jackie Ben Efraim for her research on these Talmuds. See her illustrated presentation 'Survivors' Talmud' on YouTube. Rabbinical Representative by Central Commitee [sic] of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied Zone hardcover books
1769réf. 410381769. Trew Christoph Jacob 1695-1769. Mezzotint portrait by Johann Jacob Haid 1704-67. N.p. Nuremberg 1769 or after. 531 x 356 mm. image measures 406 x 268 mm. Margins a little frayed not affecting image a few small marginal tears repaired but very good. Excellent mezzotint portrait of German physician and botanist Christoph Jacob Trew after whom the East Indian plant genus Trewia is named. Trew was the author of the lavishly illustrated Hortus nitidissimis omnem per annum superbiens floribus 1750-86 and Plantae selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini in hortis curiosorum nutrita 1750-73 both with plates engraved after drawings by the noted 18th century botanical artist Georg Dionysius Ehret; the latter work has been described as "one of the great botanical iconographies" Lazarus and Pardoe p. 43. The present portrait appeared as a frontispiece to the Plantae selectae. Trew founded the periodical Commercium litterarium ad rei et medicinae scientiae naturalis one of the first general medical journals and from 1743 served as director of the Kaiserlich-Leopoldinisch-Carolingischen Akademie der Naturforscher. Trew's scientific correspondence numbering over 19000 letters is the largest such collection known; his natural history library of 34000 volumes is now at the University of Erlangen. Lazarus and Pardoe Catalogue of botanical prints and drawings at the National Museums & Galleries of Wales 2003. . unknown books
1671réf. D6213Amsterdam: Barent Otto Smient 1671. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo 155 x 90mm. In two parts separately titled and paginated Lof-Sang op het geestelyk houwelyk van godes soone Laudatory Song on the Spiritual Marriage of the Son of God. 44 544pp. 120pp. 5. Added engraved title page Proef steen van den trou-ringh in addition to the letterpress title to the first work two engraved full-page portraits one of prolific artist and poet Anna Maria van Schurman and one of Jacob Cats and a full-page allegorical engraving Het Derde Deel facing p. 249 in addition to 51 half-page engravings in the text depicting scenes of domestic and married life. Engraved printers device depicting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Near contemporary vellum ms. title to spine somewhat effaced; some slight thumbsoiling lightly toned with age; corners bumped. This 1671 edition based on the imprint of Trou-Ringh by Jacob Cats was first published in Dordrecht in 1637. Cats a Dutch Golden Age poet and politician wrote these rhymed dissertations on marriage and fidelity using very different marriage cases from literature in which conjugal ethics emerged. Cats method was to treat human behavior and society in all its aspects through the lens of marriage both human and spiritual ie. the marriage of Christ and His Church. He takes examples from the Bible Adam and Eve David and Abigail etc. and from classical and modern authors Cyrus and Aspasia Marc Anthony and Cleopatra etc. Cats tells of marriages to patriarchs ancient and modern; cases from Israel Persia Egypt from the life of Charles the Great and of the Great Mogul and Spanish gypsies. Also included are discussions of marriage after rape the breaking of marriage bonds adultery and the like. Because marriage dominated all periods and regions of the world all classes all ages with a variety of feelings and soul states this work resonated with the reader although Cats unusual storytelling intended moral and religious teachings. He propagated that marriage with its many possibilities and moral demands which it always must fulfill totally belong together: as do the ring and the stone. Cats was a distinguished Dutch writer but his Orangist and Calvinistic opinions set him apart from the liberal school of Amsterdam poets. Still for nearly two centuries he enjoyed enormous popularity. Wonderfully preserved important work on 17th century societal structures the many engravings are delightful and captivating. Barent Otto Smient hardcover books
1808réf. 002760Philadephia: Jane Aitken 1808. Book. 8vo orig. blue paper boards cream paper spine printed label. Pp. xlviii 4 159 8 uncut. Engraved frontis. Spine worn offsetting of plate on title; a very good copy in original condition. First edition. An early American work intended as a general introduction to the subject. Includes chapters on Franklin's kite experiments and instructions for constructing an electrical kite. See DNB for Jacob Green's wide-ranging scientific contributions to botany astronomy paleontology and physics. Rink 752; Wheeler Cat. 697; Imprints 17672. Jane Aitken hardcover books
1645réf. 48771Paris: Nicolaum Redelichuysen 1645. First edition. Hardcover. Good condition. Octavo. 11 150 25 39 1 leaves. Rebound in modern brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Red edges. First title page printed in red and black with publisher's device. Historiated and decorative headpieces tailpieces and initials. Both titles second editions Alpini's title first published in 1591 Bondt's in 1642. Alpini was a physician and botanist Bondt a Dutch physician and pioneer of tropical medicine. Alpini's work is illustrated with four in-text and two full page woodcuts. Alpini traveled in Egypt and became the fourth prefect of the Botanical Garden in Padua. "One of the earliest European studies of nonwestern medicine. Alpini's work dealt primarily with contemporary i.e. Turkish practices observed during a three-year sojourn in Egypt. These included moxibustion - the production of counter-irritation by placing burning or heated material on the skin - which Alpini introduced into European medicine. Alpini also mentioned coffee for the first time in this work" Norman. With extensive index at rear. De Bondt was a pioneer of tropical medicine. His work on East Indian medicine included here is based on experiences during four years he spent in Djakarta. It was the first important treatise on diseases in East India and includes the first modern description of Cholera and other tropical diseases. First published posthumously in 1642. Index at rear. Text in Latin. Binding with light wear along edges and rubbed spine lightly sunned. Ex-Libris of German-born British professor of chemistry Franz Sondheimer on inside front cover. The first four leaves frayed with small chips at lower foredge no loss of text a few small inked entries and a small stamp of the Royal Medical Society Edinburgh on front cover. Title page with paper reinforcement on back. First in-text woodcut with stamp in center second woodcut with stamp grazing image third and fourth with stamp outside imagery. The two full page woodcuts with stamps grazing the border of image. Some light sporadic foxing of block and last page with chipping along edges some loss of the printed word Index and foxing and browning along edges. Small dealer sticker on inside back cover. Nicolaum Redelichuysen hardcover books
1632réf. 1417859The Hague: Isaac Burchoorn 1632. Loose folio. Two portfolios containing 127 loose half-page engraved emblems excised from Jacob Cats' 17th century emblem book. Condition of pages is Very Good Minus. Pages show mild age toning to body and mild-to-moderate toning to edges. Occasional light foxing or minor stain to page edge. Spot of mold to p.196. Shelved at Rockville Room C. 1417859. Special Collections - Upstairs. Isaac Burchoorn unknown books
