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1766réf. 92148Boston: Printed by Richard and Samuel Draper in Newbury-Street 1766. Paperback. Fair. 30p. Disbound removed from a bound volume. 19 cm. Substantial foxing. Last few leaves almost entirely detached. No separate wrapper present. Coloniral printing. Dana served as minister in Ipswich fror 62 years. Printed by Richard and Samuel Draper, in Newbury-Street paperback books
1823réf. 93056Andover: Codman Press 1823. New Edition Revised and enlarged. Hardcover. Poor. 406 20p. plus 2 page addenda and corrigenda. Original boards. 25 cm. Covers detached. Binding broken apart at both hinges and several places on backstrip. Some foxing. Text clean. Codman Press hardcover books
1832réf. 91006Andover: Flagg & Gould 1832. Hardcover. Very Good. 276p. Original cloth backed boards. 25 cm. Foxing probably heaviest on covers endpapers and first several leaves at beginning and end of book. Former owner's name S. F. Otis. Backstrip concave. Flagg & Gould hardcover books
1940réf. 49139n.p. 1940. Hardcover. Good. photos mostly portraits 400p. Original clothloth. 23cm. Covers heavily spotted. Some browning and scattered foxing on text-pages. No Jacket. hardcover books
1899réf. 337975Boston: Moses King 1899. First. hardcover. near fine. 2337 portraits. 616 pages. 8vo decorated green cloth. New York: Moses King 1899. First Edition. Front hinge neatly repaired else a near fine copy. A Companion Volume to King's Handbook of New York City. Moses King unknown books
1867réf. 31821Stettin Szczecin/ Lviv: A. Druker 1867. Third edition. Hardcover. fair to good. Large octavo. Unpaginated. 146 double-sided leaves. Period brown marbled paper boards protected in modern glassine. Contains four title pages one for the work in total at the front followed by three individual title pages for each of the three parts of the work. Each title page with decorative woodblock borders. Two of the title pages state Stettin as the location of publication while the other two state Lvov Lviv. The title pages state this as the "third edition". Text throughout printed on blue paper following the first title page. This historically important work is a treatise and reference work on the natural sciences which is famous for its numerous woodcut illustrations and figures. It was the first Hebrew book of its kind to be published. It's author was the early Enlightenment Polish-Jewish physician Tobias Cohen aka Toviyyah ben Moshe ha-Kohen or Toviyah Kats 1652-1729. The work was first published in Venice in 1707 and is divided into three parts covering covers numerous topics including medicine physiology anatomy hygiene botany zoology cosmology and astronomy. Includes at total of 26 black woodblock illustrated figures and diagrams throughout outlining creation depicting the geocentric and heliocentric models of the solar system the four elements plants insects physical phenomena and ships sailing on the the spherical globe of the world among others. The third part is the most notable for its famous illustrated figure known as "The House of the Body" which shows the detailed interior anatomy of the human body and a multi-story house side by side relating and comparing the organs of the body to the divisions of the house. The work is also includes theology and cosmology from a Jewish context and discusses Sabbatianism. Text in Hebrew. Binding with rubbing to the extremities as well as abrasions and scratches to the paper boards. Front board starting to crack at the top of the front hinge. Starting following the second title page and at the interior rear cover. Contains copious period ink notes in Hebrew and English on the interior covers and endpapers. Printed ex-libris of a previous owner pasted on the front free endpaper. Library stamp from another previous owner Jacob Franklin on the bottom of the third page. Rippling to endpapers. Some sporadic minor to light stains and smudges. Title page of part 2 with a small tear resulting in minor loss of text and some light chipping to the very edge of the final leaf of part 2. Binding in fair to good- interior in good condition overall. Quite scarce. Hebrew title: מעשה טוביה Author: טוביה קץ/ טוביה כהן/ טוביה הכהן/ טוביה ×”×¨×•×¤× Publication: לבוב/שטעטין ×. דר×קיר תרכ״ז Alternate transliterations: Mase Towija 2nd title page Ma'aseh Tobiyah Ma'aseh Tuvyah Ma'aseh Toviyyah Ma'aseh Tovia. A. Druker hardcover books
1824réf. 55402London: Henry Moses 1824. First edition. Hardcover. Very good to fine condition. Oblong Octavo. 20 etchings plus original illustrated wrappers. Bound in Royal blue leather retaining original wraps; gilt lettering and ruling on leather label mounted to spine. Cream endpapers. Tan wrappers with etching and brown lettering on front back cover plain. Our collection of "Sketches of Shipping" on the River Thames appears to be the earliest state published by Henry Moses with front wrappers dated Dec. 1 1824 and all twenty etchings dated in plates Oct. 1 1824. An 1826 advertisement in the Quarterly Review indicated that six parts of the Sketches with five engravings each had been published up to that time and announces the publication of two additional issues. The front wrapper stating publication date as Dec. 1 1824 as in our copy appears to have been used in various editions including some containing eleven plates dated March 1 1825 in plates or lettered in ink "Nos. 5 & 6" corresponding to the 1826 Quarterly Review advertisement. The irregularities and/or contradictions in tracing the publication of these Moses etchings suggest that due to the constrictions of the medium these popular etchings were published in limited numbers in variant editions as identified by the dates in these plates to satisfy the public demand of the time. In our copy all 20 etchings are dated in plates Oct. 1 1824 with two of the plates containing additional dates etched into the plates as indicated below: 1. Sailing Match Aug. 16 1824 2. An Indianian in Barnard's Yard Deptford 3. Trafalgar 120 G 125 4. Midway 5. Midway Aug. 9 1824 6. Blackwall. Dutches of M. 7. Blackwall Basin 8. Trafalgar P - 120 Guns 9. Sheerness Yard from a Window of the Fountain Inn 10. Sheerness 11. Sheerness Yard from a window of the Fountain Inn variant motif 12. Trafalgar 120 Guns 13. Trafalgar in the Basin Sheerness 14. Hulks at Sheerness 15. Blackwall 16. Untitled 17. City Canal 18. Basin at Blackwall 19. Blackwall - Wellington Indiaman 20. Surat Castle All etchings but plate 12 with H. Moses printed to plate. Plate twelve with Henry Moses. Printed by Chatfield and Coleman. Inked name and date on front free endpaper. "12/." inked to upper foredge corner of cover; this with a few small damp stains on front and back covers. OCLC lists an 1837 copy with 57 plates incl. 2 engraved title pages published in London by Ackermann a 1824 copy with nineteen plates 1825 and 1837 copies with thirty plates the latter published by Ackermann an 1837 copy titled "The Marine Sketch Book" with twenty-eight plates an 1826 copy with nine plates titled Sketches of Shipping: View in Portsmouth Harbour" and an 1827 copy with thirty plates titled "Shipping at Portsmouth and Spithead" publisher W. B. Cooke. Henry Moses hardcover books
1838réf. 50610London: Longman Orme Brown and Longmans 1838. First edition. Hardcover. Good condition. Octavo. ix 329 371pp. Bound in green pebbled cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Marbled edges. Gray endpapers. With preface by the translator Vindiciae Judaeorum: or a letter by Rabbi Manasseh Ben Israel and Mendelssohn's preface to the German translation of "Vindiciae Judaeorum" notes on Mendelssohn's reply remarks on Mendelssohn and a short catalogue of Ben Israel works in volume one. Mendelssohn's "Jerusalem: A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Authority and Judaism" in volume two. Light wear along edges of binding and lightly rubbed. Starting at dedication page of volume one. Longman, Orme, Brown and Longmans hardcover books
1831réf. 55595Berlin: Published by the author 1831. First edition. Hardcover. Poor to good condition. Small quarto. xlviii. 132pp. Bound in three-quarter blue leather over black pebbled cloth boards with gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Hebrew and German title page. Printed on high quality cotton rag paper. Introduction to the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmud by renowned German Talmudist Ephraim Moses Pinner see below written before Pinner's Talmud- translation into German. This is the first -and only ever published- volume of a planned series on the Talmud. It covers the origins the language and authenticity of the Talmud as well as a biography of Shimon Bar-Yohai famous Rabbi who lived in the era of the Tannaim scholars of the Mishnah in the area of what is today Israel during the Roman period after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. Bar-Yohai was one of the most eminent disciples of Rabbi Akiva and is attributed by many with the authorship of the Zohar "The Brightness" the chief work of modern-day Jewish mysticism "Kabbalah". In addition the important legal homilies called Sifre and Mekhilta are attributed to him. Text in Hebrew and German Gothic script. Some wear along edges with lower foredge leather corner missing. Front cover and spine intact but loosened from block with two library plates on inside front cover. Missing fron free endpaper. Jewish title page with some damp-staining and small chip at bottom foredge. Blind-stamped library stamp on title page inked stamp on verso. Leaves at front through page XIII with light damp-staining so are pages XXXIXthrough XLVIII here in margins. Some sporadic light damp-staining on some pages of block more pronounced on pages 130-132. Published by the author hardcover books
1920réf. 52932Moscow/Odessa: Omanut 1920. First edition. Softcover. g- to vg. Large quarto. Unpaginated 8 double-sided leaves front and back wrappers printed on both sides. Stiff tan paper wrappers with beautiful chromolithographic illustrations in hues of green blue red and gold. Issued by the pioneering Hebrew-language published house Omanut. This lavishly illustrated work contains the Hanukkah poem "For the Dreidel" written by acclaimed Hebrew-language poet Zalman Shneour 1887-1959 although the author is uncredited here. The text is accompanied throughout by 8 large and vibrant chromolithographic images including the front and back wrappers many with over-painting in lustrous metallic hues of silver and gold. Whenever the Dreidel appears it is in silver. The illustrations are credited collectively to "Havurat Tsayarim" The Group of Painters a group of four young artists from the Odessa Art Academy who illustrated works for Omanut during the period comprised of Yakov Apter 1899-1941 Moses Mutselmakher 1900-1961 Aaron Keravatsov 1896-1942 and Efim Khiger 1899-1955. This work is part of the Gamliel Library series of beautiful picture books for children introduced by Omanut co-founder Shoshana Zlatopolsky Persitz and named after her son Gamliel. Persitz took inspiration from the rich tradition of Russian children's literature lavishly illustrated in chromolithographs produced by the likes of Ivan Bilibin and the publishing house of Iosif Knebel to create some of the earliest examples of comparable works in Hebrew. No publication date is given but the fact that this is one of a smaller number of earlier titles issued before the move of the publisher Omanut to Frankfurt points to the fact it could not have been published after 1921. Text throughout in Hebrew. Front wrapper foxed and lightly water-stained with some additional minor staining to the back wrappers. Light rubbing chipping and/or creasing to extremities. Leaves disbound. Interior images and text overall still quite clean and vibrant with a few minor to light stains and/or smudges along the bottom margins of a few leaves. Ex-library ink stamps at the bottom of the first and last text pages as well as the back wrapper. Wrappers in good- interior in very good condition overall. Hebrew title: לסביבון Author/contributors: חבורת-×¦×™×¨×™× ×פטר מוצלמכר קרבצוב חגר זלמן ×©× ×™×ור Publication: מוסקבה-×ודיסה הוצ×ת ××ž× ×•×ª Series title: ספריה גמלי×ל Alternate transliteration: L'Sevivon This first edition is quite scarce with OCLC listing only two holdings worldwide. A slightly more common second edition of the work was published in 1922 after Omanut had moved to Frankfurt. Bibliographic reference: Ayala Gordon Hebrew Illustrations 2005 p.89-116. Omanut unknown books
1920réf. 52940Moscow/Odessa: Omanut 1920. First edition. Softcover. g- to g. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated 8 double-sided leaves front and back wrappers printed on both sides. Stiff tan paper wrappers with beautiful chromolithographic illustrations in hues of green blue black and brown. Issued by the pioneering Hebrew-language published house Omanut. This lavishly illustrated work is a version of the Aesop's fable often known as "The Miller His Son and the Donkey" in a version said to have been adapted by Leo Tolstoy with Hebrew translation attributed to the acclaimed Hebrew-language writer and essayist Ahad Ha-Am Asher Zvi Ginsberg 1856-1957 although the work is completely uncredited. Here the work's title has been humorously translated into Hebrew as "To Please Everyone". The text is accompanied throughout by 8 large and vibrant chromolithographic images including the front and back wrappers. The illustrations are credited collectively to "Havurat Tsayarim" The Group of Painters a group of four young artists from the Odessa Art Academy who illustrated works for Omanut during the period comprised of Yakov Apter 1899-1941 Moses Mutselmakher 1900-1961 Aaron Keravatsov 1896-1942 and Efim Khiger 1899-1955. This work is part of the Gamliel Library series of beautiful picture books for children introduced by Omanut co-founder Shoshana Zlatopolsky Persitz and named after her son Gamliel. Persitz took inspiration from the rich tradition of Russian children's literature lavishly illustrated in chromolithographs produced by the likes of Ivan Bilibin and the publishing house of Iosif Knebel to create some of the earliest examples of comparable works in Hebrew. No publication date is given but the fact that this is one of a smaller number of earlier titles issued before the move of the publisher Omanut to Frankfurt points to the fact it could not have been published after 1921. Text throughout in Hebrew. Wrappers with some foxing and staining. Some rubbing and creasing to extremities. Back cover lightly soiled with a light vertical crease in the center. The binding has been re-cased with a sting-binding along the spine to secure the book block. Water staining and light foxing to pages throughout predominantly in the margins. Images still vibrant. Wrappers in good- interior in good condition overall. Quite scarce. Hebrew title: ‌לצ×ת ידי הכל Author/contributors: חבורת-×¦×™×¨×™× ×פטר מוצלמכר קרבצוב חגר ×יזופוס לב טולסטוי ×חד ×”×¢× Publication: מוסקבה-×ודיסה הוצ×ת ××ž× ×•×ª Series title: ספריה גמלי×ל Alternate transliteration: La'tset Yede Ha'kol. Omanut unknown books
1678réf. 52858Paris: G. Caillou 1678. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. 16 384pp; 3 unnumbered double-suite engraved plates with legends in the margins. Engraved printer's device at title. Woodcut head- and tailpieces lettrines. Text in Latin with some key terms in Hebrew; printed marginalia. Contemporary calf rubbed and lightly worn at extremities; spine with raised bands gilt-tooled compartments old manuscript title on paper in upper compartment. Text lightly toned throughout else clean and crisp. A good or better copy. Collation: atilde6 etilde2 e2 signed e3 A-3B4 = 200 leaves First edition of this Latin version of Sefer Avodah The Book of Divine Service being the eighth book of the Mishneh Torah Moses Maimonides' systemic treatment of Talmudic and post-Talmudic Jewish law halakhah. The nine chapters of Sefer Avodah comprise a legal digest of Israelite cult practices at the Jerusalem Temple: The Chosen Temple; Vessels of the Sanctuary and Those Who Serve Therein; Admission into the Sanctuary; Things Forbidden on the Altar; Sacrificial Procedure; Daily Offerings and Additional Offerings; Sacrifices Rendered Unfit; Service on the Day of Atonement; Trespass. "Whereas Christian interest in Maimonides' thought was focused on his philosophic work the Guide of the Perplexed during the Middle Ages -- the so-called Age of Faith -- this interest shifted during the Renaissance the Reformation and the Enlightenment to his Halakic work the Mishneh Torah. It was through the Mishneh Torah that Christian thinkers and theologians viewed normative Judaism" Dienstag. Born Daniel de Weil in the Jewish quarter of Metz Louis-Compiègne de Veil d. c.1710 was the son of the town's rabbi David Weil d. 1645 and a descendant of the Nürnberg rabbi Jacob Weil. Both he and his brother Charles Marie de Veil converted to Catholicism under the influence of the new Catholic archdeacon Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet who arrived at Metz in 1652. The archdeacon "shared in the current apocalyptic excitement of both Christians and Jewish cabbalists and the conviction of the former of an imminent large-scale conversion of the Jews" ODNB. He was sponsored at his baptism by Louis XIV as reflected in his new Christian name and went on to study theology at the Sorbonne. Both Louis and his brother subsequently converted to Calvinism and immigrated to England. "Designated sub-keeper of the Royal Library in 1678 de Veil was licensed 'ad docendum litteras in et per totam urbem Londinensem' in 1685" Massil. As noted by Dienstag de Veil "devoted himself to the interpretation of Maimonides' code Mishneh Torah." The present work was dedicated to the son of Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert the churchman Jacques Nicolas Colbert 1655-1707 who later become Archbishop of Rouen in 1691 and was one of the first members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Provenance and annotations: With the 19th-century bookplate of "Mr. F. Theremin Ministre du S. Evangile" at the front paste-down and his stamp at the bottom margin of the title-page. The opening blank end-leaf contains detailed bibliographical lists in French. The first notes thirteen authors and their works which discuss de Veil including Richard Simon Pierre Daniel Huet and Job Ludolf; the second notes seven bibliographies which include the present work followed by a list of later printings. References: J. I. Dienstag "Christian Translators of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah into Latin" in: Salo Wittmayer Baron Jubilee Volume NY: Columbia Univ. 1974 pp.288; 303 no. 4; S.W. Massil "Immigrant Librarians to Britain: Huguenots and Some Others" 69th IFLA General Conference and Council and Council 1-9 August 2003 Berlin; S. Wright "Charles Marie de Veil" in: ODNB. Full title and imprint: De cultu divino ex R. Mosis Majemonidae Secunda lege seu Manu forti liber VIII. Dividitur in IX. tractatus quorum seriem pagina è regione Elenchi posita declarabit. Accesserunt tabulae aere incisae in quibus exprimitur Hierosolymitanti templi forma accuratissimè & eleganter descripta. Hunc librum ex hebraeo latinum fecit & notis illustravit Ludovicus de Compiegne de Veïl D.A. Parisiis apud Guidonem Caillou Bibliopolam viâ Jocabaeâ sub Constantia. M.DC.LXXVIII. G. Caillou hardcover books
1555réf. 48871Köln Cologne: Maternus Cholinus and Jakob Soter 1555. First Latin diglot edition. Hardcover. Good. Small octavo. A-L16 = 88 leaves signed on each side e.g. A8 verso is signed A16; H9 missigned G9. 16 157 2 epigram 1 blankpp. Pagination and register run from right to left. Modern quarter sheep over marbled boards gauffered edges endleaves renewed. Library stamps and old owner entries at title; early marginal annotation and underlinings in the "Epistola"; text toned with dampstain affecting bottom quarter of text throughout not impairing legibility; marginal tear at C7. A good complete copy with ample margins. Third edition per Steinschneider and the first Latin diglot version of this anonymous introductory work. First published at Venice in 1544 it is notable that a Latin translation appears so soon after a sixteenth-century editio princeps of a Hebrew work. It comprises a commentary on and explanation of difficult terms in Maimonides' Moreh Nevukhim Guide for the Perplexed with an elucidation of terminology in the translations of Arabic to Hebrew as well as the jargon of medieval philosophical literature in general. As the editor of the present edition notes at the title "Ru'ah Hen has been attributed to the renowned translator R. Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon c. 1120-c. 1190 and to R. Jacob ben Abba Mari ben Samson Anatoli 13th century also a translator of note. Ibn Tibbon known as the 'father of translators' was born in Granada Spain but relocated to Lunel in Provence France to escape the persecution of the Jews in the former location. He supported himself as a physician coming into contact with many sages one of whom R. Meshullam ben Jacob requested that ibn tibbon translate R. Bahya ibn Paquda's Hovot ha-Levavot into Hebrew. In addition to translating that work from Arabic ibn Tibbon also translated several other books into Hebrew among them R. Judah Halevi's Kuzari R. Saadiah Gaon's Emunot ve-De'ot and R. Solomon ibn Gabirol's Middot ha-Nefesh and Mivhar Peninim" Heller. While this is the fourth known printing of the work it is the first to include vowel points and the translation of the formerly Jewish convert to Christianity Johann Isaac Levita 1515-1577 a descendant of Elias Levita the most famous in his time of those Jews who sought scholarly contact with Christians and taught Christians Hebrew. As an added bonus the present edition includes Maimonides' De astrologia epistola elegans. The celebrated English jurist and Hebrew scholar John Selden is known to have had a copy of Ruah ha-Hen in his library Oxford Library note. Adams J-403. Cf. Heller The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book 815 noting the present ed. Steinschneider 1 col. 639; no. 4038. VD 16 I1. Hebrew title: רוח החן. Maternus Cholinus and Jakob Soter hardcover books
1695réf. 48869Amsterdam: Hendrick Boom and the Widow of Dirk Boom 1695. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two parts quarto. 8 154 2 errata; 171 2 variantes lectiones 1 corrigenda 2 blankpp. Title in red and black with woodcut vignette; half-title for the second part; woodcut lettrines. A dedication to the Burgemeisters of Amsterdam appears following the title. In the second part the Hebrew text is printed on the left side of the rectos and the right side of the versos so as to appear in the center with the Latin translation against the margins when the book is fully opened. Contemporary vellum letterpress title in black at spine. Hebrew square unvocalized and Latin text in facing columns; full-page Latin commentary in first part. Covers lightly soiled. Clean corner tear at q2 just extending into catchword. A very good copy with clean crisp text. Collation: dagger4 A-T4 V2; a-y4 = 170 leaves; blank y4. Hebrew texts of the Babylonian Talmud mishnah treatise Rosh Hashanah The New Year; accompanied by Maimonides' treatise Hilkhot Sanhedrin The Rules of the Sanhedrin from his Mishneh Torah with Latin translation and notes by Hendrik Houting fl. 1695 who often includes copious quotations from the gemara; Maimonides; Obadiah Bertinoro; the Tzemah David of David Ganz and other Jewish sources. Little is known of the editor's life apart from his association with the better-known Dutch Hebraist Willem Surenhuys 1666-1729 now chiefly remembered for his monumental Latin translation of the Mishnah 1698-1703. It is worth noting in this context that Surenhuys "was able to make use of earlier published versions for twenty-five of the sixty-one tractates" van Rooden "Hendrik Boom 1644-1709 was an important Amsterdam bookseller and publisher. He worked together with the widow of his brother Dirk since 1680. It is uncertain whether he had a printing-house of his own" Fuks. References: Dienstag "Christian Translators of the Mishneh Torah" 16. Fuks/Fuks-Mansfeld 609. Heller 17th Century pp.1286-1287. P. T. van Rooden Theology Biblical Scholarhsip and Rabbinical Studies in the Sevententh Century Leiden: Brill 1989 p. 110. Steinschneider 5252. Provenance: Presentation bookplate of Edward Hayes Plumptre Dean of Wells Theological College 1881-1891. מסכת ר×ש השנה משנה תורה הלכות סנהדרין. Hendrick Boom and the Widow of Dirk Boom hardcover books
1642réf. 48836Amsterdam: Joan and Cornelis Blaeu 1642. Second edition. Hardcover. Very good. Sammelband of two works jointly issued the latter in two parts quarto. 12 174 1 errata 1 blank; 12 732 pp. 353-360 repeated xvii addenda 19 index x addenda 28 index 1 emendanda 1 blankpp. All four addenda and indices to the De theologia gentili bound following the second part. Each work with woodcut printer's device at title; occasional woodcut lettrines; printed marginalia. De idololatria with Hebrew text and Latin translation in parallel columns interspersed with Latin notes. Contemporary vellum lightly soiled manuscript title at spine intermittant light dampstain largely confined to first work else crisp clean and amply margined. Collation: I. asterisk4 2asterisk2 A-Y4 = 94 leaves; II. asterisk4 2asterisk2 A-2P4 2Q-4Y4 4Z2 asterisk-4asterisk4 5asterisk2 cross-5cross4 = 414 leaves 2Y-2Y4 repeated. Re-issue of the first edition 1641 of the first two books of four of G. J. Vossius' De theologia gentili with new preliminaries including an Elegy written by Caspar Barlaeus on the occasion of the death of Gerhard's son Dionysius dated IV Kal. Novembris MDCXXXIII 1633 and a preface by another of Vossius' sons Isaac; along with an edition of the Hebrew text of Maimonides' treatment of the laws of idolotry in the first book of the Mishneh Torah with accompanying Latin translation by Dionysius Vossius. "The work has a two-fold aim. In the first place it is a Theologia gentilis. Of this the subtitle says that the work treats. the origin and history of heathen mythologies and cult forms. But at the same time the book is a Physiologia christiana a study 'de naturae mirandis quibus homo adducitur ad Deum' an account as complete as possible of the rich diversity of all creation that in the inention of the creator must serve to reveal to man the greatness of God. It is simultaneously an ambitiously arranged textbook of mythology a summary of what was written about nature in all its manifestations up until Vossius' time and finally also a first specimen of what would be done profusely in the eighteenth century a book on the natural knowledge of God" Rademaker. Provenance: The manuscript entry "Jan de Wind. 17 april An. 1697.". References: J. I. Dienstag "Christian Translators of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah into Latin" in: Salo Wittmayer Baron Jubilee Volume 31 De idololatria. Fuks/Fuks-Mansfeld 202 De idololatria ed. 1641 noting that there exist copies without the Hebrew text. The 1641 ed. contains no preliminaries after the title. Katchen Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis esp. pp.24-25. Rademaker Life and Work of G.J. Vossius Assen 1981 no. 24: "In his last large work the Theologia gentilis. he dared to make full use of Scaliger's chronological innovations" 185. For more detailed commentary see: pp. 306-310. For Dionysius see 163f. Joan and Cornelis Blaeu hardcover books
1864réf. 50647Krotoschin Krotoszyn/ Vienna/ Frankfurt am Main: Printed by B.L. Monasch/ Jacob Schlossberg's Buchhandlung/ Printed by Ferdinand Hauch 1864. First German translations. Hardcover. g to vg-. Octavo. 3/4 black morocco over buckram boards. Gilt lettering and ruling on the spine. Red speckled edges of book block. A complete set of the three parts of Maimonides acclaimed work The Guide for the Perplexed in German and Hebrew bound in one volume. All of the editions included here contain the first German translations of their respective parts of the text. Maimonides' intention with this work was to reconcile Aristotelian thought and logic with traditional Rabbinical Jewish theology. Originally written circa 1190 in Judeo-Arabic as Dalalat al-Ha'irin these writings takes the form of a lengthy three-part letter to his student Rabbi Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta and are seen as the main source for understanding Maimonides' philosophic view rather than his strictly being his views on Jewish law. It is the most known of his works in the non-Jewish world. The work's first translation into Hebrew was in 1204 by Rabbi Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon c.1150 - c.1230 a contemporary of Maimonides. Content: Moreh li-Tsedakah. Hu Sefer Moreh Nevukhim FIRST PART. 1839. Second German-language edition. 19 double-sided leaves with Hebrew pagination. 392pp. 3. In 1835 the first part of Maimonides acclaimed work was first translated into German with added commentary in Hebrew by Jacob Raphael Fürstenthal 1781-1855. That first edition featured the German translation printed in Latin script to accompany the Hebrew text. However for this second edition of that translation it is interesting to note that the text of the German is printed in Hebrew script. Content finely printed in double and single-column layouts with commentary printed in Rashi script. Divided in 76 chapters this part of the work contains discussions of an understanding and definition of the nature of God and divine anthropomorphism in the Hebrew bible including a detailed analysis of the Biblical Hebrew of the text to these ends. The final three pages included here contain and index in both Hebrew and German. BOUND WITH More Nebochim. Wegweiser für Berirrte SECOND PART. 1864. First German-language edition. x 99pp. This is the first German translation of the work's second part taken from the original Arabic text by way of the French translation by Salomon Munk 1861. The original Hebrew translation of the text is accompanied throughout by a translation and commentary in German by Max Emanuel Stern 1811-1873. Divided into 48 chapters the second part involves Maimonides discussion of proof of the existence of God the nature of creation the concept of prophecy and an examination of the 26 propositions for Aristotle's metaphysics. The initial pages contain introduction and foreword by Stern. Also included is a fold-out plate containing facsimile text from an original signed manuscript note from the hand of Maimonides himself written in Japhet son of Solomon's corrected manuscript copy of the Mishneh Torah held at Bodleian Library at Oxford MS Hunt.80 leaf 165a. AND WITH Dalalat al Haiirin Burechtweisung der Verirrten. Dritter Theil. THIRD PART. 1838. First German-language edition. viii 9 454pp. 5. This is the first German translation of the work's third part. Simon B. Scheyer 1804-1854 provides the translation and scholarly commentary in German to accompany the Hebrew of the text. This third and final part of Guide for the Perplexed is divided into 54 chapters and is considered the climax of the work and the culmination of Maimonides' previous analysis. Discussed are concepts including Jewish mysticism the Chariot of Ezekiel the moral aspects of the universe the problem of evil free will and the 613 mitzvot of the Torah. The final pages contain a scholarly index in German. Binding tight with some rubbing to extremities including the hinges of the spine. Spine and covers lightly sunned. Text throughout with some sporadic minor to light foxing. Much of the text is quite clean. A very few instances of underlining or notes in pencil. Binding in good interior in very good- condition overall. Hebrew title: מורה לצדקה .×”×•× ספר מורה × ×‘×•×›×™×/ מורה × ×‘×•×›×™×/ מורה × ×‘×•×›×™×. ×•×”×•× ספר דל×לה ×לח×ירין .חלק שלישי Author: משה בן מימון רפ×ל בר"י ×¤Ö¼×™×¨×©×˜×¢× ×˜×”×ל Publication: פרנקפורט/ קר×ט×שין תקצ״ט Alternate titles and transliterations: Moreh Nevukim Doctor Perplexorum Bibliographic references: PART 1 Vinograd Krotochin 14. PART 3 Vinograd Frankfurt 578 Provinence: Previously owned by Oxford religion scholar O.H.M. Lehmann dated 1949. Printed by B.L. Monasch/ Jacob Schlossberg's Buchhandlung/ Printed by Ferdinand Hauch hardcover books
1686réf. 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
1829réf. 48951Andover: Flagg & Gould 1829. First edition Ex-Library. Hardcover. fair to g. Octavo. viii 9-243pp. Orange half library tape over gray-green boards with gilt lettering on label of spine protected by modern mylar. "Chrestomathies in Latin and Greek have long been employed for the instruction of youth in most of the countries of Europe. there has been some diversity of opinion among the learned about the expediency of employing Chrestomathies in the Hebrew language. Of all the Hebrew Chrestomathies which I have yet examined and I have seen most of them which have acquired any considerable name none have been conducted on a plan which affords substantial aid to the learner." Stuart. Text in Hebrew and English. Binding with wear scuffing along edges rubbed and some staining of covers. Library plate on inside front cover some water staining here. Library stamp on title page. Medium stain at gutter around page 200 diminishing towards front. First two leaves of preface loose though still attached. Endpapers with some foxing. Binding in overall fair interior in good condition. Flagg & Gould hardcover books
1839réf. 48414Wien: Krotoschin; printed by B. L. Monasch 1839. Later printing. Hardcover. g to vg. Octavo. 392 3 8pp. Original three-quarter leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering on red label and gilt tooling and ruling on spine. Red edges. Light blue endpapers. Translated into German from Ebn Thybbon's Hebrew translation of the Arabic original annotated and with an epilog on the preface by R. I. Fürstenthal. The publication is an edition of Maimonides seminal work on Jewish philosophy "Guide to the Perplexed" written app. 1190 in Arabic using Hebrew letters and first translated into Hebrew in 1204. Originally written in a three-part letter to his student Joseph ben Juda of Ceuta. It was written to enlighten a religious man according to Maimonides to explain obscure figures appearing in the Prophets; and generally addressed to an elect educated readership. Text in German and Hebrew. Binding with wear along edges small chips along edges and red leather label on spine. Marbled boards with light scuffing. Light scuffing at front joint of the spine with light fraying at head. Light foxing of front and back part of block. Binding in overall good interior in good to very good condition. References: Cf. Fürst II p. 305: Krotoschin 1838. Krotoschin; printed by B. L. Monasch hardcover books
1810réf. 48456London: Longman Hurst Rees & Orme 1810. First edition. Hardcover. poor to g-. Quarto. 34 plates. Bound in period 3/4 red pebbled leather over tan marbled paper boards. Decorative paper title with black lettering pasted on the front cover. Bound with plates in numerical order but missing 19 of the 51 engraved plates as originally issued. Also missing from this copy is any text giving publication information. The title page simply reads "Illustrations by Moses". This extremely scarce work collects 32 full-page steel-plate engravings by English illustrator Henry Moses 1781-1870 based on scenes from Jean Froissart's Chronicles of the 100 Years' War. The artist seems to have been influenced by images from the mediaeval illuminated manuscript copies of Froissarts work. Here we see various scenes of French court life various members of the French nobility and other royalty as well as some battle scenes. Each image is numbered and captioned underneath. Binding with front board detached but present. Some rubbing and chipping to extremities. Interior with some scholarly annotations in pencil from a previous owner on the front free endpaper and in the lower margins of many of the plates. Pencil markings also at the bottom of the label on the front cover. Most plates throughout with light to moderate foxing and water stains. Binding in poor interior in good- condition overall. Extremely scarce. Alternate titles: Moses's Illustrations cover Illustrations by Moses Illustrations to Froissart's Chronicles Illustrations by Henry Moses. [Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme] hardcover books
1896réf. 47608Chicago: Isaac S. Moses 1896. First edition. Softcover. g- to near fine. Octavo. 62pp. Beige printed wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. A scarce song book collecting 45 American Jewish liturgical melodies and prayers for use in choral singing in Reform congregations arranged and edited by Rabbi Isaac S. Moses 1847-1926. Contains translations of prayers into English where necessary as well as transliteration of the original Hebrew to accompany the musical notation. Included are a number of original melodies for traditional Jewish prayers and hymns submitted for the purpose of this publication by a variety of rabbis scholars and musical directors of synagogues including F.G. Rohner Alois Kasier and P.C. Lutkin as well as contemporary melodies from established European-Jewish composers and cantors of the 19th century such as Louis Lewandowski 1821-1894 Samuel Naumbourg 1817-1880 and Salomon Sulzer 1804-1890. Also included are a number of adaptations of previously famous melodies from past secular composers including Mozart Beethoven Mendelssohn and Johann Heinrich Rolle. Text in English printed in single and two-column formats. Publishers advertisements on the back wrapper. Wrappers with age toning to the edges of the covers as well as chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Wrappers disbound from book block. Book block tight with pages clean and in great shape. Wrappers in good- interior in near fine condition overall. Extremely scarce. Protected by modern mylar. Singerman 5049. Isaac S. Moses unknown books
1944réf. 46935New York: New Directions 1944. First edition. Hardcover. g. Octavo. 30 2pp. Original orange paper boards with black lettering on cover. Title-page printed in orange and black. Series "The poets of the Year." Contains list of 1941 and 1942 titles of the series at rear. Klein's attempt to satirize Hitler. Being an important member of the the Montreal Jewish Community Klein was best known for his poetry. Binding with light wear along edges and lightly sunned spine small chips and closed tears here. Block slightly age-toned. Binding and interior in overall good condition. New Directions hardcover books
1907réf. 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
1901réf. 34494Berlin: Otto Lienekampf 1901. First edition. Softcover. vg. Folio. 4 323-351 3pp. Original wrappers illustrated by Art Nouveau illustrator Ephraim Moses Lilien. Exquisite issue of this early German interior design magazine published between 1900 and 1914. This August 1901 issue contains numerous b/w photographic reproductions as well as bordures motifs and illustrations by artist E. M. Lilien and others E. Lasch C. von Sivers A. von Lepell G. von Estorff etc. This copy is complete with its two large fold-out floral pattern sheets including one by Lilien and its color plate depicting a design by C. von Sivers . Page 326 features a large art nouveau pattern by Lilien 15 3/4" x 8". Pattern sheets measure appr. 52" x 45" each. Minor shelf wear. Text in German. Wrappers and interior in overall very good condition. Otto Lienekampf unknown books
1901réf. 34493Berlin: Otto Lienekampf 1901. First edition. Softcover. vg. Folio. 4 131-159 3pp. Original wrappers illustrated by Art Nouveau illustrator Ephraim Moses Lilien. Exquisite issue of this early German interior design magazine published between 1900 and 1914. This February 1901 issue contains numerous b/w photographic reproductions as well as bordures motifs and illustrations by artist E. M. Lilien and others Hermann Radzig E. Lasch etc. This copy is complete with its two large fold-out floral pattern sheets and its color plate. Pattern sheets measure appr. 52" x 45" each. Page 155 features a large art nouveau pattern by Lilien 15 3/4" x 8". Minor shelf wear. Text in German. Wrappers and interior in overall very good condition. Otto Lienekampf unknown books
