1962Best.-Nr. 265463Elisabethville 1962. unbound. Rare and intriguing letter 11.75 x 8.25 inches Cabinet of the President Elisabethville November 6 1962 in English written during his pseudo reign to anti-Communist supporters in Miami Florida recovering from their failure to overthrow Fidel Castro and the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis in full: "I have not much time to write I shall only tell you and your friends how pleased I have been to receive your kind letter. I really do appreciate your sympathy for my Country and myself thanks for your good wishes." Fine condition. Congolese radical Politian who in 1961 became President of the Government of the Province of Katanga eventually seceding from the rest of the Congo. He succeeded in getting military assistance from Belgium and was responsible for Patrice Lumumba being transferred to Katanga where he was executed. After U.N. forces re-captured Katanga in 1963 Tshombe was driven into exile in Northern Rhodesia. He briefly returned as Prime Minister a year later but was eventually dismissed. In 1967 Joseph Mobutu filed charges of treason against him and he was sentenced to death. unknown books
1880Best.-Nr. 1303024Paris/Leipzig: Verlag von Mme Syb. M. Hess Wittwe 1880. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 182 1 pages; VG; rebound in red cloth gilt lettering to spine; ex-library US Air Force to front pastedown; stamp on half-title page for a Professor in Berlin; with five folding plates plus the gravure frontispiece; mild age-toning to pages moderate to plates; text in German; scarce; shelved case 10. Moses Moshe Hess 1812-1875 was a French-Jewish philosopher and a founder of Labor Zionism. His socialist theories predicated on racial struggle led to conflict with Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. 1303024. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Verlag von Mme Syb. M. Hess Wittwe hardcover books
1940Best.-Nr. 555584Norfolk Connecticut: New Directions 1940. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. Spine lettering dull corners bumped faint dampstain on one leaf a well-read but sound good or better copy lacking the dust jacket. The first commercial book appearance of these five poets preceding each of Berryman's and Jarrell's own separate first books by two years. This is poet Donald Justice's copy with his ownership Signature "Don J" on the front pastedown. New Directions hardcover books
1705Best.-Nr. 385644Holmiae Stockholm: Henricus Keyser 1705. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. 7 28pp.; illustration. Sewn. Text in parallel Latin and Hebrew. Remnant of old marbled wrapper else disbound contemporary name on titlepage chip at the bottom of titlepage removing no text edgewear about very good. A thesis on the nature of a field with a Latin translation of Maimonides' Hebrew text. OCLC locates seven copies over three records; three in the U.S. Henricus Keyser hardcover books
1907Best.-Nr. 42246New York: Moses King 1907. Souvenir edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio. 16 VIII 112pp. Original illustrated burgundy cloth with black lettering to spine and brown and black lettering to front cover. Beveled edges. Published in 1907 to comemorate the 60th anniversary of the Liederkranz foundation the first 16 pages of this album contains numerous b/w photographic reproductions of the original building located at 111-119 East 58th street outside and inside views as well as photographs of the board of directors. Founded in 1847 to advance German-American relations the Liederkranz of New York City is devoted to cultural and social exchange and the sponsorship of musical events. Its activities are dedicated to the support development and preservation of culture in New York City. After the first part devoted to the Liederkranz this work contains the 1906 edition of "King's Views of New York" lavishly illustrated throughout with no less than 400 b/w photographic reproductions depicting a buzzing metropolis in full expansion as well as its major landmarks and architectural buildings such as: The Narrows; New York Harbor; Battery Park; Staten Island Ferry; the Brooklyn Bridge; the Manhattan Bridge; Harlem River; the Financial District; The Beaver Building; The New York Produce Exchange Bank; The Corn Exchange Bank; The New York Stock Exchange; The Statue of Liberty; Astor House; Broadway; Chinatown; The Bowery; The Fuller Building; The Waldorf-Astoria; Carnegie Hall; Columbia University; New York University; The New York Public Library etc. Includes various street scenes with newsboys immigrants arriving in the city street cleaners vendors selling baskets and brooms pretzels shoelaces ice lunch and ice cream etc. Some rubbing to corners and head and tail of spine. Binding in overall good interior in very good condition. Moses King hardcover books
1862Best.-Nr. 47726Berlin: Printed by Julius Sittenfeld 1862. Hardcover. g to vg. Elephant Folio. Original spotted leather with debossed vignette and decorative ruling on cover. Blue endpapers. Title page printed in red and black with engraved vignette. With commentaries by Vidal Yom Tov of Tolosa Abraham ben David of Posquières Joseph ben Ephraim Karo Shem Tov ben Abraham Ibn Gaon Meir ha-Kohen Abraham Hiyya de Boton Judah ben Samuel Rosanes Nehemiah Trebitsch and Nahman Avraham Goldberg. The Mishneh Torah is the only Medieval-era work that details all of Jewish observance including those laws that are only applicable when the Holy Temple is in existence. Its title is an appellation originally used for the Biblical book of Deuteronomy and its subtitle "Book of the Strong Hand" derives from its subdivision into fourteen books: the numerical value fourteen when represented as the Hebrew letters Yod 10 Dalet 4 forms the word yad "hand". Maimonides intended to provide a complete statement of the Oral Law so that a person who mastered first the Written Torah and then the Mishneh Torah would not need to refer to any other legal text. Contemporary reaction was mixed with strong and immediate opposition focusing on the absence of sources and the belief that the work appeared to be intended to supersede study of the Talmud. Maimonides responded to these criticisms and the Mishneh Torah endures as an influential work in Jewish religious thought. According to several authorities a decision may not be rendered in opposition to a view of Maimonides even when he differed from the understanding of the Talmudic passage for in such cases the presumption was that the words of the Talmud were incorrectly interpreted. Likewise: "One must follow Maimonides even when the latter opposed his teachers since he surely knew their views and if he decided against them he must have disapproved their interpretation. However despite his stature in Yemen and the Sephardic world the Rabbinic authorities from the 13th century onwards did not base their legal rulings and interpretations of Halicha on Maimonides. The Mishneh Torah was compiled between 1170 and 1180 4930-4940 while Maimonides was living in Egypt and is regarded as Maimonides' magnum opus. Text in Hebrew. Bindings with mostly light wear along edges with small chips some scuffing of covers and lightly rubbed. Volume three with two inch crack at lower front joint and chip at head of spine. Volume four with one and a half inch closed tear at head of spine. Few bookworm holes at lower foredge of first few pages of volume one. Brief inked notes on endpapers. bindings in overall good interiors in very good condition. Printed by Julius Sittenfeld hardcover books
1843Best.-Nr. 53918London: B. Wertheim 1843. First edition. Octavo. xx xvi 259 1pp. With an index and a list of approximately 200 subscribers. Text in English with some Hebrew. Original decorative blind stamped brown cloth nicely rebacked in the 20th century with gilt lettering on spine reading "Modern Judaism Investigated." Illustrated with 7 plates depicting talith scapular phylacteries etc. The plates include a frontispiece of the religious garb of a Polish Jew and a later plate of the religious garb of an English Jew. Plus numerous text woodcuts. Front pastedown with an autograph bibliographical note in English and Hebrew. This work is very scarce in the trade. "Moses Margoliouth 1820-1881 divine was born of Jewish parents at Suwalki Poland on 3 Dec. 1820. He was instructed at Pryerosl Grodno and Kalwarya in talmudic and rabbinical learning and also acquired Russian and German. In August 1837 during a visit to Liverpool he was induced to carefully study the Hebrew New Testament with the result that on 13 April 1838 he was baptised a member of the church of England." National Dictionary of Biography. B. Wertheim unknown books
Best.-Nr. 5392MOSES EVANS 1812-1853. Evans was a noted Texan soldier and surveyor.DS. 1pg. November 29 1850. Brenham Texas. A promissory note signed x by Moses Evans Evans was illiterate. The Texas pioneer promised to pay John Johnson $198.30 plus interest. For value received I promise to pay John Johnson or other One hundred and ninety eight dollars and thirty cents with interest on demand. Moses Evens sic x. It has a horizontal fold and is in very good condition. unknown books
1740Best.-Nr. 25748Dublin: Printed by S. Powell for Edward Exshaw 1740. Very Good. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell for Edward Exshaw at the Bible on Cork-hill over-against the Old-Exchange 1740. First Dublin Edition. Octavo; full contemporary calf gilt-lettered spine in six compartments; xxxvi241-3526pp. A3 B-2X4 2Y2 2Z2 collated complete despite error in pagination. Minor scuffing to leather extremities with a few tiny chips endpapers foxed at extremities contemporary ownership signature of a Hannah Armstrong at head of title page along with that of a Will Jones dated 1803. A Very Good sound copy overall. Extensive Biblical annotations by the English nonconformist minister Moses Lowman 1680-1752. Includes the list of subscribers on pp. xxxvii-xxxviii. The previous owner Hannah Armstrong does not appear on the list of subscribers though if she had she would have been one of just two women. The latter half of p. xxxviii is devoted to the publisher's advertisements which ran from sermons to histories and something called "The Tales of the Faries" by the Countess d'Anoise in three volumes. ESTC T170485. Printed by S. Powell, for Edward Exshaw unknown books
1944Best.-Nr. 51701Tel Aviv: Irgun Olej Merkaz Europa 1944. First printing. Hardcover. Very good condition. Duodecimo. 89pp. Rebound in burgundy half cloth over marbled paper boards with decorative motifs in gilt along seem gilt lettering on spine. Treatise written in 1944 introducing proposals for the Jewish post-war claims offering a systematic and concrete examination of the sections into which the problem of Jewish post-war claims naturally falls and indicating the direction of international legislation to be prepared. The essay presents the line of argument raises the question of nationality and representation of Jewish demands based on general law the Jewish collective claim and the body representative of the Jewish people claims of Jews from countries other than Germany and suggeststs steps to be taken in 1944. The appendices provide information on the discussion and publication of the reparations problem citing Oswald Dutch E. H. Carr Jakob Viner and others from the early 1940s on as well as figures demonstration the reparations problem after W.W.I. Binding with minor wear along edges. Block age-toned. Irgun Olej Merkaz Europa hardcover books
1823Best.-Nr. 66774Cincinnati: Looker & Reynolds. Very Good. 1823. First Edition. Hardcover. Guest Moses. POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS; TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL KEPT BY THE AUTHOR WHILE HE FOLLOWED THE SEA AND DURING A JOURNEY FROM NEW-BRUNSWICK IN NEW JERSEY TO MONTREAL AND QUEBEC. Cincinnati: Looker & Reynolds 1823. First Edition in contemporary calf professionally rebacked retaining the original leather spine label and almost seamlessly done. Old foxing but a nice fresh copy. Guest came to Cincinnati in 1817 and the journal here in pages 83-160 contains early reminiscences of that city and of his travels. The opening poem is an acrostic dedicated to George Washington. . Looker & Reynolds hardcover books
1950Best.-Nr. 162911N.p.: N.p. 1950. Vintage borderless oversize matte finish portrait photograph of noted outsider artist Anna Mary Robertson Moses better known as Grandma Moses sitting in her wicker rocking chair circa 1950s. Moses began painting in earnest at the age of 78 drawing on her memories of rural life in New England. From the archive of the PIX Agency an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. 11 x 14 inches archivally matted in a 16 x 20 inch 8-ply white mat. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1893Best.-Nr. 460705Chicago: W.B. Conkey Company 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Stout quarto. 1120pp. Illustrated. Folding map affixed to rear pastedown advertisements. Blue decorative cloth stamped in black and gilt. Modest soiling on the boards a very good copy. W.B. Conkey Company hardcover books
1964Best.-Nr. 69141Osnabrück: Otto Zeller 1964. Photomechanical reprint. Hardcover. Octavo 23.5 cm Yellow cloth over boards stamped in black and gilt. Light foxing to the text block edges. Traces of light soiling to the front board of volume 1. Text in French and Hebrew. Photomechanical reprint of the 1856-1866 edition. Moses ben Maimoun 1138-1204 more commonly known as Maimonides in the English language and as Rambam in Hebrew is viewed as the greatest Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages. This work The Guide of the Perplexed is his magnum opus. It is an in-depth treatment of Jewish thought and practice that aims to resolve the conflict between religious knowledge and secular. Although strongly influenced by the Neo-Platonized Aristotelianism that had sprouted in Islamic circles it departs from the dominant modes of Aristotelian thought by emphasizing the limits of human knowledge and the questionable foundations of significant parts of astronomy and metaphysics. Maimonides was also a well-known physician who wrote medical treatises on numerous diseases and their cures. Later generations of philosophers wrote detailed commentaries on the works of Maimonides which heavily influenced thinkers such as Aquinas Spinoza Leibnitz and Newton. Information from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Otto Zeller hardcover books
1952Best.-Nr. 11398New York: Harper & Brothers 1952. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated in color. Facsimile documents. Quarter red morocco over patterned boards with gilt titled spine patterned end-papers top edge gilt. Light soiling and shelf-wear to boards near fine. First edition Number 93 of 270 copies signed by Grandma Moses. A wonderful autobiography of the American folk-artist. Anna May Robertson Grandma Moses 1860-1961 began her painting career at age 78. Her works have been exhibited around the world and are often seen on greeting cards and other merchandise. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1952Best.-Nr. 008204New York: Harper 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in tissue dustwrapper with minor chips and a Fine slipcase. Bound in half red morocco leather and decorative boards. Illustrated with facsimiles of letters and 16 color plates of her paintings. One of 270 numbered copies of this beautiful book SIGNED by the artist on the limitation page. Harper hardcover books
1823Best.-Nr. 236441London: Printed by and for James Appleton Queen's Row Walworth 1823. First edition Appleton imprint. 28 of 29 engraved plates. 1 vols. Small 4to 8-1/4 x 7-3/4 inches. Original quarter morocco and boards with title label on upper cover " . Thirty Plates sic. Price Two Guineas". Piece removed from flyleaf; title page mounted. Plates clean; very good. First edition Appleton imprint. 28 of 29 engraved plates. 1 vols. Small 4to 8-1/4 x 7-3/4 inches. Delicate Flaxonesque engravings displaying Empire-style costumes and furnishings and scenes from literature Pope's Belinda and antiquity Pericles by Henry Moses 1782-1870. He enjoyed "a great reputation for his outline plates which are distinguished for the purity and correctness of the drawing. His art was peculiarly suited to the representation of sculpture and antiquities and he published many sets of plates of that class " DNB. This work was published under various titles DESIGN OF MODERN COSTUME by several different London printers. Lipperheide 994; Colas 2143; Hiler p. 633 Printed by and for James Appleton, Queen's Row, Walworth unknown books
1817Best.-Nr. 45921London: H. Moses 1817. Moses was one of the great engravers of his day. This is his first book and true to form it contains gem-like engravings of sh . London: H. Moses 1817. Moses was one of the great engravers of his day. This is his first book and true to form it contains gem-like engravings of shipping and craft and dock and port scenes with a freshness and charm all their own. Many of the locations and landmarks pictured here are noted in "A View of Mark Objects for Sailing into Ramsgate Harbor." See item #8 in this list. In fact though the "Mark Objects" engraving is unsigned it bears thematic and technical similarities to the engravings of Henry Moses who was active in the same location and same period as the engraver of the Ramsgate panorama. See DNB and Archibald Dictionary of Sea Painters p. 189. With a pencil sketch of Plate XXIII - a windmill probably not by Moses laid in. Bound in original boards expertly rebacked in black morocco with gold spine lettering. Publishers printed label on the front board. Scattered foxing but an attractive untrimmed copy. 23 cm. b/w folding plan 23 engraved plates. 8 pp. plus plan and plates. . H. Moses hardcover books
1826Best.-Nr. 42478London: Henry Moses 1826. Unpaginated. 30 b/w etchings. Etched title and 29 plates. The images are reminiscent of but more charming than those in Cooke's "Shipping and Craft." Brewington lists Moses as an English etcher who was born in 1782 in London. He worked for the British Museum and died in 1870. Moses published books of drawings of art objects and of historical scenes throughout the first half of the 19th century. However this title is among his scarcest. The present copy contains parts 1-4 in his series of waterfront views. Each image is dated so we can trace the progression from the Thames to Sheerness to the Dockyards. As time went on he issued more prints until he was able to publish an issue with 57 etchings. The edition offered here is rare with only two copies listed on OCLC. Brewington Dictionary p. 268. Scattered foxing some pages rather grubby but still a good copy of a lovely collection of images. Bound in 19th century 1/4 calf over marbled boards with gilt spine decoration. . Henry Moses hardcover books
1873Best.-Nr. 52619Columbus Ga.: Isaac I. Moses Co. 1873. Formerly an Armorer for the Confederacy With directions for use. At the time of the Civil War the Moses family were fifth-generation Sephardic Jews. They were "completely acculturated into Columbus society while remaining devout Jews" Rosen. During the war Isaac Moses manufactured rifles for the Confederacy at Columbus. The American Civil War database lists an Isaac Moses serving in Nelson's Georgia cavalry but provides no further information. Not in Hummel or Singerman. Minor soiling. Near fine. ROSEN THE JEWISH CONFEDERATES 18-19 385 note 37. unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 21663Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1939. Cloth. Very Good . INSCRIBED BY ROBERT MOSES on the front free endpaper. A clean solid copy to boot of the 1939 1st edition of this long lecture given at Harvard by Robert Moses as part of the Godkin Lectures. Tight and VG in its fittingly crimson cloth with very light rubbing at the spine. Internally very clean with no writing or markings of any kind other than Robert Moses's inscription. 12mo 78 pgs. Also includes a laid-in card in original envelope expressing birthday wishes from Robert Moses's wife Mary. Harvard University Press unknown books
1686Best.-Nr. 48545Utrecht: Francisci Halma Francis Halma 1686. First edition. Softcover. vg-. Octavo. 3. 56pp. Title page illustrated with decorative and deatiled woodlock printer's device. The work is a detailed list of the 613 Jewish laws codified in the Hebrew bible as presented according to Maimonides in his work Sefer Mitzvot The Book of Commandments. Here the laws are presented side by side in Hebrew and Latin in a two-column format and translated by Calvinist orrientalist and scholar Johannes Leusden 1624-1699. The laws are divide into two groups the first consisting of the 248 obligatory commandments and the second group containing the final 365 prohibitive commandments. The front includes two pages of introductory text from translator Johannes Leusden with decorative woodblock initials. Although the work is complete in itself the work was originally bound with a collection of dissertations on the Hebrew bible by Leusden titled "Philologus Hebraeus" issued in Utrecht by printer Francis Halma the same year. Text throughout in Latin and Hebrew. Disbound book block with some sporadic minor to light water stains to the title page and the rest of the text mostly in the margins. In very good- condition overall. Francisci Halma (Francis Halma) unknown books
1813Best.-Nr. 58749Andover: Flagg and Gould 1813. First edition 8vo pp.123 1; quarter calf over marbled boards manuscript paper label on spine; boards rubbed upper joint starting textblock clean and sound. One of the first books published at Andover Theological Seminary and for more than thirty years the standard among theological institutions. Paradise A history of printing in Andover. Prior to his joining Andover as professor of sacred literature Stuart had no acquaintance with Hebrew. He immediately began intensive study of the language and became one of the few native-born Americans to know enough to teach it. Lack of funding compelled Stuart to produce his own grammar for the benefit of his students which was first circulated in manuscript then printed in 1813 and expanded in 1821. He had to import Hebrew type and as local printers couldn't properly set it did much of the setting himself DAB. While other grammars of Hebrew had been printed in America as accompaniments to lexicographical works this is one of the earliest if not the first separately produced grammar of Hebrew in the States. American Imprints 29896. Flagg and Gould unknown books
1832Best.-Nr. 48338Pembroke CT 1832. 8vo pp. 2 100 2; 6 leaves of mounted dried flowers mostly perished at back; 1 extra bifolium laid in containing three pages of "wandering thoughts"; contemporary quarter red calf over marbled paper-covered boards; upper joint cracked at the top boards rubbed and bumped; very good. A manuscript notebook full of pontification on a variety of subjects some rather mundane "Friendship is an acquisition which is very necessary and needful in life" and some on more colorful topics: the autobiography of a hat Yankee peddlers "Among the variety of imposters which we daily meet the yanks peddlers must be the first which comes under our observation"; slavery; the plight of the Indians; fashion "Where the old fashioned knee-buckles have been turned into some article of fancy; the sheepskin pantaloons and horn buttons have given place to morocco shoes and shell combs". Thirty-three entries are provided in all. One describes the town of Pembroke CT; there seems little otherwise to indicate where these essays were published if at all. unknown books
1828Best.-Nr. 139219London: Septimus Prowett Strand 1828. Hardcover. F Vol. 1's boards are off but are present some pages are separate but present; all have heavy edge wear; some foxing to some plates and pages; some marks and bookplates from previous owners; one plate could be missing from vol. 3; could be nicely rebound if done conscientiously. 3 vols. Vols. 1-2 are three-quarters marbled boards with maroon leather spines; Vol. 3 is three-quarters maroon cloth with maroon leather spine. Generally unpaginated; total of 147 BW plates. A 3-volume set detailing sculptures created by Venetian artist Antonio Canova 1757-1822. Vols. 1 and 3 have introductions; otherwise this set proceeds with illustrations and descriptions of specific sculptures one by one. Vol. 1 contains descriptions & illustrations for 40 sculptures. Vol. 2 does the same for 32 busts monuments and bas reliefs with many depictions asdouble-page spread engravings. Vol. 3 was a supplement published four years after the first two. It contains dozens of new entries for sculptures busts and bas reliefs. It also outlines medals struck with Canova figures and it includes "Thoughts on the Arts" a compilation of 60 separate "thoughts" written by Canova or said to represent his beliefs. Quite the interesting set. Septimus Prowett, Strand hardcover books
