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réf. 43935Amsterdam: En Casa de Joris Trigg/ D. Efraim Bueno y Jona Abravanel 5412. Hardcover. g- to vg-. Duoecimo. 7x4.5". 478pp. Original dark brown leather with blind-stamped ruling and tooling on the covers and spine. Raised bands on the spine. Metal clasps. Red-speckled edges of the book block. An early Spanish-language edition of the complete Jewish High Holiday prayer book Machzor based on the original translation by Abraham Usque originally printed in Ferarra Italy in 1553. This edition contains some added material not previously present including most prominently Solomon ibn Gabirol's famed philosophical poem "Keter Malkhut" Royal Crown which over the years has come to be read as part of the Yom Kippur service in some Jewish traditions. Published by Dr. Efraim Bueno and Jona Abravanel to serve members of the then sizable Sephardic Jewish community in Amsterdam. A significant portion of the community were former Conversos Jews who had outwardly converted to Catholicism during the inquisition in Spain who then emmigrated and were able to reestablish their Jewish identity and thus were unable to read Hebrew hence the text's publication in Spanish. As stated in the foreword this edition includes some additions to the text not included in previous versions and omits some material deemed to have been unnecessary. The prayer book starts with the penitential prayers Selichot p.3-47 which includes decorative head and endpeices. This section is followed by the Rosh Hashanah service p.48-195 and then the Yom Kippur service including the "Keter Malkhut" p.254-289. Title page is has a decorative vignette printed in woodblock and is printed with the Hebrew date "5412". Pages 305-352 are misprinted as "321-368" with their correct numbers handwritten above in ink. All text in Spanish. Binding with some rubbing and scratches to extremities and to the covers. Front hinge starting to split slightly at the head and tail of the spine. Missing one of the metal clasps on the back cover. Starting at interior covers. Some minor to light sporadic damp staining and foxing throughout the text. Period signature of the previous owner "Silva" in ink on on the title page and p.200. Name of another previous owner in ink on the interior back cover. Book block tight overall. Binding in good- interior in very good- condition overall. Quite scarce. Dr. Efraim Ephraim Bueno aka Martin Alvarez 1599-1665 was a Portuguese-born Jewish physician in Amsterdam of the famed Iberian-Jewish Bueno medical dynasty and prominent member of the city's Sephardic community. He served for many years as the personal physician to famed artist Rembrandt van Rijn who in fact depicted Bueno in two of his works one an etching and the other a painted portrait. He received his medical education and degree in Bordeaux and was known to have practiced medicine in Amsterdam until the time of his death. In addition to his medical practice Bueno was an accomplished biblical scholar who along with Jona Abravanel published numerous Jewish works the on the bible and Jewish Law. Jona Abravanel 1593-1667 was a Sephardic Jewish poet in Amsterdam from the prominent Abravanel family. He was the nephew of Famed Portueguse-Dutch Rabbi and printer Menasseh ben Israel. Together with his uncle and Dr. Efraim Bueno he was responsible for publishing numerous works of Judiaca in the 17th century. In this edition the title page was mistaken printed with the word "Kuyper" which was then correct via a scrap of paper pasted on top. References: KAYSERLING 1890 p. 7 31 61 under Abravanel Bueno and Liturgy PALAU 1923 under 202415 with an incorrect dat of 1662 PEETERS 1933 1037. This publication follows an edition with same title also from Amsterdam in 1630 but printed by David Pardo and Salom ben Yosseph Menasseh ben Israel with different pagination. En Casa de Joris Trigg/ D. Efraim Bueno y Jona Abravanel hardcover books
1907réf. 35553V.p. 1907-1921. Five volumes bound in one; octavo 23.75cm.; later black cloth gilt-lettered spine. Fine condition. Contents as follows: 1. Sigmund Freud. Der Wahn und die Träume in W. Jensens "Gradiva." Leipzig: Franz Deuticke 1912. Second Edition. 287pp. 2. Karl Abraham. Traum und Mythus: Eine Studie zur Völkerpsychologie. Leipzpig: Franz Deuticke 1909. 273pp. 3. A. Müller. Bismarck Nietzsche Scheffel Mörike: Der Einfluß nervöser Zustände auf ihr Leben und Schaffen. Bonn: A. Marcus & E. Webers Verlag 1921. V31026adspp. 4. Tim Segaloff. Die Krankheit Dostojewskys: Eine ärztlich-psychologische Studie mit einem Bildnis Dostojewskys. München: Ernst Reinhardt 1907. 54pp. 5. L. Frank. Die Psychanalyse ihre Bedeutung für die Auffassung und Behandlung psychoneurotischer Zustände. München: Verlag von Ernst Reinhardt 1910. 47pp. unknown books
1833réf. 31283Philadelphia: James Kay Jun. and Brother 1833. First Thus. Large octavo 22.5cm.; full contemporary speckled calf two black gilt spine labels; 557pp. Boards a bit shelf-worn with old soil spots corners lightly bumped textblock a bit foxed and soiled numerous contemporary and later 1930s ownership inscriptions to front endpapers else a Very Good example. "University Edition" - bottom spine label. Collected lectures delivered by Blair during his tenure as the Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the University of Edinburgh first published in London in 1784 shortly after the author's retirement. James Kay, Jun. and Brother unknown books
1970réf. 147145New York: Kennedy Galleries 1970. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran February 14 through March 8 1970. Essay by Allen Leepa. Includes 31 illustrtations with 16 in color. A very good copy in stapled wrappers with some minor wear. Kennedy Galleries unknown books
1965réf. 29684London: I. Labworth & Co. 1965. First Thus. Octavo 22cm.; original black cloth upper cover lettered in gilt; xxxi224pp. English and Hebrew text on opposite pages. About Fine. Inscribed to Ben Shahn to front free endpaper: "For Chanukah 1965 to Ben. Have a good cry about the daughter of Zion. / Masha and Moishe." From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label mounted to front i.e. rear pastedown. [I. Labworth & Co.] unknown books
1950réf. 9022853Worcester MA: Achille J. St. Onge 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's original full green oasis goatskin with covers and spine stamped in gilt. Miniature book measuring 2 x 3 inches. One of 1500 copies printed from Momotype Plantin type on Barcham Green hand made all rag paper at the Chiswick Press and bound by Sangorski and Sufcliffe. Achille J. St. Onge hardcover books
1981réf. 139640New York: Kennedy Galleries 1981. First edition. Oblong softcover. 12 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 24 through April 10 1984. Includes 12 color illustrations. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Kennedy Galleries unknown books
1972réf. 139626New York: Kennedy Galleries 1972. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran October 19 through November 4 1972. Includes 23 color and black and white illustrations. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Kennedy Galleries unknown books
2010réf. WELLER9780375714368Vintage Books 2010. New. New book. Vintage Books unknown books
1997réf. UYEHOPE00EEHarcourt Brace 1997. Fine. Yehoshua Abraham B. Open Heart. Bilu Dalya. San Diego: Harcourt Brace 1997. 469pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine. Light rubbing to extremities. Harcourt Brace paperback books
1911réf. UHOAFRA00JNJoseph A. West 1911. Fair. Hoagland Abraham H. Francis West of Duxbury Mass and Some of His Ancestors and Decendants sic. Ogden UT: Joseph A. West 1911. 48pp. 8vo. Gray wraps. Book condition: Fair. Wraps are soiled and chipped at edges with small pieces lacking at spine. Contents have a light stain at fore edge but otherwise good tight. Joseph A. West paperback books
1892réf. 22436City of Washington: The Smithsonian Institution 1892. First Separate Edition. Wrappers. Very Good. First Separate Edition. 1-24 pages plus 5 plates and original printed wrappers. Folio 9 3/4 x 13 inches. Top page edges uncut an unread copy. Wrappers have been professionally restored and reattached with missing paper filled in correcting a common failing of this title. The wrappers are often chipped and/or detached with large pieces missing due to the thin almost ephemeral nature of the binding. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge number 842. Wrappers. "Michelson was the first American citizen to win the Nobel prize for his 'precision optical instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations conducted therewith'.He was clearly recognized as one of the foremost experimental physicists of the nation." - DSB "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1907 was awarded to Albert A. Michelson "for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid". Nobel Prize d o t org. The Smithsonian Institution unknown books
1979réf. 9005983Franklin Center: Franklin Library 1979. Hardcover. Fine Condition. The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature. Bound in the publisher's original green composition leather with the covers and spine stamped in gilt and with an oxblood leather spine label stamped in gilt. Three raised bands on the spine. All edges gilt. Silk moire end papers. Franklin Library hardcover books
1864réf. 23084New York: Sold at 13 Park Row and at all Democratic Newspaper Offices 1864. 8pp caption title disbound a bit of blank margin wear Good. At head of title: 'Document No. 12.' This Democratic Party campaign pamphlet portrays President Lincoln as an incompetent military strategist who perpetually "interfered with General McClellan both when he was general-in-chief and afterward when he commanded the brave Army of the Potomac." Worse Lincoln has "The Taint of Disunion." He not McClellan the Democratic presidential candidate supported the Jeffersonian right of revolution in a speech during his single term in Congress. He and other "ultra abolitionists" are the "original secessionists and disunion men." George McClellan wants the rebel States to return to the Union but Lincoln's policies render that impossible. Lincoln "regards the States as dead and gone. He magnifies and strengthens the position of the Richmond dynasty" by seeking to negotiate "only with Jefferson Davis." Monaghan 326. Not in LCP. Sold at 13 Park Row, and at all Democratic Newspaper Offices unknown books
1603réf. 322945Antwerp: Abraham Ortelius 1603. Map. Engraving with beautiful hand coloring. Image measures 14" x 18". Beautiful 1603 map by Abraham Ortelius depicting Ancient Latium including Rome from his "Parergon". It covers Latium from the Tyrrhenian Sea to Umbria with parts of Tuscany and Campania. Cities are identified as individual buildings with particular focus on Rome its walls and notable buildings like the Coliseum. Notes mountains rivers marshlands and forests beautifully illustrated in profile. The map also includes historical and mythological elements such as a reference to Pliny in the Fucine Lake adding depth to the map's depiction of the region. Three cartouches adorn the map. The first is an ornate title cartouche in the upper right quadrant. Another is a dedication to Marcus Velser Augustanus. The third contains an inset of Mount Circeo the supposed dwelling place of the mythical goddess Circe who enchanted Odysseus and turned his companions into swine. This is the second state of the map identified by the addition of a network of roads around Rome and the designation of the swamp extended in the lower right along with the letters "VOLCI". The map is in good condition with some toning and minor abrasion loss near centerfold and verso repair near bottom margin. Van den Broecke #209. Abraham Ortelius 1527-1598 was a prominent Flemish cartographer geographer and cosmographer renowned for creating the first modern atlas "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" which first appeared in 1570 and expanded over time to include 134 maps by 1592. Born in Antwerp he began his career as a map colorist and became a significant figure in cartography after being influenced by Gerard Mercator. His work was pivotal in the development of modern cartography integrating maps from various sources and reflecting his advanced geographical theories including early thoughts on continental drift. Appointed Royal Cartographer to King Philip II of Spain in 1575 Ortelius had access to extensive Spanish geographical knowledge. Despite the religious and political turmoil of his time he maintained a position of relative neutrality focusing on his scholarly and cartographic pursuits. His influential works also included "Synonymia Geographica" "Nomenclator Ptolemaicus" and "Parergon. Abraham Ortelius unknown books
1860réf. 022510Columbus OH: Follett Foster and Company 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Front endpaper lacking top third; pencil writing on front endpaper and blank as well as rear pastedown; light to moderate foxing heaviest to title page; gilt on spine a little dull but readable. Very Good. Early issue. Publisher's brown blindstamped cloth; iv - ads iv 268 pages. These public debates over slavery are perhaps the most consequential campaign debates in American history. The first speech in the volume is Lincoln's famous "House Divided" speech of 17 June 1858 in Springfield IL. HOWES L-338; NEW HOWES L 339 "b": "Historically the most important series of American political debates." Follett, Foster and Company hardcover books
1863réf. 13393N.p.: Printed Not Published 1863. 48pp. Modern crimson wrappers. Large dampstain throughout first half of text text toned thereafter. Marginal pencil markings throughout including one notice of transposed lines on page 9. Overall good plus condition. A rare collection of letters by an anonymous author mostly sent to President Abraham Lincoln but also to Secretary of State William Seward Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase and other officials between October 25 1860 and February 19 1863. The author is a Unionist and a self-described "citizen" not a soldier though he has plenty to recommend to President Lincoln and others about how to prosecute the present war. He also refers to himself as "a cool observer outside the stifling atmosphere of Washington" though again he wastes no time in recommending actions and strategies for political and military improvements. The author was most certainly a political actor of some kind as he writes intimately and on friendly terms with Lincoln and others "You know my personal regard for you" to John J. Crittenden in early 1861. He writes long letters to his correspondents about a decidedly wide variety of issues including the future of slavery political intrigue the dissatisfaction of the public early in the war and more but mostly about troop levels troop movements officer appointments and other aspects and critiques of war strategy. A notable angle of the work is that the author's side of the correspondence and likely some of the return correspondence he mentions within the letters are possibly lost to history other than their presence here. The imprint reads simply "Printed Not Published" and does not include a place or date of publication. We have assumed the date of 1863 given the introductory note is dated March 8 1863. OCLC reports just six copies at Columbia the Huntington Library Harvard Brown the University of Chicago and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. Printed, Not Published unknown books
1897réf. 2411Tennessee; Kentucky 1897. Very good -. 91 11" x 8½" photocopied leaves typescript rectos only about 30000 words bound in three-hole vinyl folder. Folder very good minus with light edge wear and scuffing; remnant of penciled price to cover sheet else internally fresh with a few handwritten amendments. This is a rare and thrilling firsthand account of a soldier's experience in the Civil War transcribed by his sister's husband 30 years later from the "original copy removed from drowned body of Thomas Banta." Per the present cover page Abraham Thomas Banta was born in 1839 and "quit Bloomington University in Indiana to go to War." He died there in July 1863 "four months short of his twenty-fourth birthday." Banta's diary begins at Camp Zion Tennessee in January 1863 and soon sets the tone of his spirit: "God forbid that this war should continue any longer for it is the most degrading and demoralizing thing upon the people that ever disgraced God Almighty's green earth." Entries cover the weather general morale "portion of our boys on a high" tasks like horseshoeing guard duty and orders: "On drill as usual . . . We were ordered out here to hold the Yanks in check as they made Duke's regiment skedaddle and killed Col. Hutchison. The saddles are on our horses. The men are stretched around asleep; neither men nor horses have had anything to eat since morning . . . We may have to mount our horses at any moment." Detailed text describes the scenery camp life "one of the most irksome and burdensome yet one of the most lazy lives that mankind was ever subjected to" pickets payrolls and Banta's views on military strategy. We see his troop through Frankfort and Lexington Versailles Harrodsburg Knoxville and the capture of Elizabethtown "and several hundred prisoners." He laments the "demoralization and devastation" of "bright and intelligent youths" as well as the "cruel" effects of war on women and "the negro" - "Horrible is war in every respect!" The account goes until late June noting the perils of river crossing and terrible rain "very hard on soldiers in camp without tents." Banta perished soon thereafter. A thorough fascinating Civil War diary and incredible survival. No record was found of this account in OCLC or online. unknown books
1971réf. 168714Bergamo: Galleria Lorenzelli 1971. Softcover. First Italian Edition. Catalog for an exhibition which ran from April through May of 1971 at Galleria Lorenzelli. Text in Italian. Very Good plus in perfect-bound wrappers. Galleria Lorenzelli unknown books
1980réf. 008561San Francisco 1980. Hardcover. Fine. A History of Sinai Memorial Chapel in San Francisco. Chevra Kadisha - Its Meaning and Concern in Jewish Life. Octavo. 8 ¾ x 5 ½ inches. xvi 263pp. Black & white photographic illustrations. Blue cloth lettered in gilt. Front corners lightly bumped mild foxing to edge of text-block overall a fine copy. San Francisco n.d.- c.1980. Presumed first edition. In the mid-1800's in Northern California there often was no local society funeral home or even rabbi to bury Jews in accordance with Jewish traditions. Therefore Sinai Memorial Chapel opened in 1901 in San Francisco to fill this need. This book not only covers the history of the Chapel but continues on to discuss the various rules and laws in Judaism pertaining to the deceased as well as observances during wartime in regards to military burials. hardcover books
1723réf. 805501723. Amsterdam: Salomon Schouten 1723. Amsterdam: Salomon Schouten 1723. Bilingual Edition of an Important Maritime Code Consolato Del Mare. Westerveen Abraham d.1725 Translator. Il Consolato del Mare Nel Quale Si Comprendono Tutti Gli Statuti & Ordini Disposti da Gli Antichi Per Ogni Cosa di Mercantia & di Navigare. Cosi a Beneficio di Marinari Come di Mercanti & Patroni di Nave / Het Consulaat van de Zee Waar in Begreepen Zyn Alle de Keuren en Ordonnantien by de Ouden Gemaakt Aangaande Alderly Gevallen des Koophandels En Zeevaart. Amsterdam: By Salomon Schouten Boekverkooper In de St. Lucye-Steeg 1723. xxxii 533 1; 2 25 73 pp. Copperplate pictorial frontispiece dated 1704. Quarto 8-1/4" x 6-1/2"; 20.95 x 16.51 cm. Contemporary vellum later hand-lettered title to spine. Light soiling and rubbing to boards light scuff to front board spine darkened rear joint partially cracked corners bumped. Moderate toning to interior somewhat heavier in places faint dampstaining to head of text block above headlines faint spotting to sections of text. $1250. Second and final Dutch edition. Italian and Dutch on facing pages. The final section contains in the original Catalan Ordinacions de Tot Vexell qui Armara per Anar en Cors e de Tota Armada Ques Faca per Mar a code dealing with such subjects as piracy. A landmark in the development of maritime law the Consolato del Mare was first published in Barcelona in 1484. A digest of the law and practice commonly followed by the commercial judges in the chief ports around the Mediterranean it became a maritime common law of the Mediterranean and a foundation for subsequent European maritime laws and customs. Its circulation was widest in Italy especially among the Venetians but it was also influential in Western Europe. First published in 1704 Westerveen's translation appeared at a time when Holland was a dominant maritime power with interests in the Atlantic and Pacific worlds. Indeed his introduction and prefatory verse present Holland as the legitimate successor to the previous maritime leaders Spain and Italy. This is why it was time he argued to produce a translation for Dutch readers. The striking frontispiece in our edition by Pieter Sluiter Sluyter 1675-1713 features a large group of men in a classical setting who are acclaiming the Consolato which i. unknown books
1996réf. 156549Northridge: The Center for Telecommunication Studies / California State University 1996. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by Abraham Polonsky on the title page. The first publication in book form of the screenplay for Polonsky's 1948 key film noir "Force of Evil" based on Ira Wolfert's 1943 novel "Tucker's People" and starring John Garfield. Fine with no dust jacket as issued. The Center for Telecommunication Studies / California State University unknown books
1836réf. 020572Halifax NS: Gossip and Coade Times Office 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Light scattered foxing owner name on front endpaper some looseness of front cover with internal tape reinforcement. Overall Very Good. Small quarto 5-3/4" x 8-3/4" in original brown cloth rebacked with heavy brown binder's tape with most of the original spine label pasted on; xxxix 272 1 pages. Illustrated with a folding lithographic frontispiece "Parrsboro' From the Water 1836" a full-page lithograph "Cape Split 1836" and a hand-colored folding map "A New Map of Nova Scotia Cape Breton Prince Edward Island and part of New Brunswick" by C.H. Belcher with "Explanation of the Maps" bound in. Gossip and Coade, Times Office hardcover books
1860réf. 158491860. Lincoln Abraham. The Lincoln and Douglas Debates 1860 printed record of the seven public debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas during the 1858 Illinois Senate campaign a pivotal series of political confrontations over slavery and the future of the United States. The debates addressed the expansion of slavery into western territories and the constitutional implications of the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision. Lincoln used the campaign to articulate a moral and political critique of slavery's expansion including the position he expressed in his earlier convention speech that "a house divided against itself cannot stand." Although Lincoln lost the Senate race to Douglas the debates established him as a leading national figure within the Republican Party and played a major role in shaping the political arguments that led to his presidential election in 1860. Lincoln Abraham. The Lincoln And Douglas Debates. A Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois. Columbus: Follett Foster and Company 1860. First edition third issue identified by the numeral "2" on page 13 and the presence of the publisher's advertisement. Octavo volume containing 268 pages. Bound in publisher's original olive green textured cloth with blind stamped borders and spine lettered in gilt. The Lincoln Douglas debates represented one of the most influential series of political exchanges in nineteenth century American history addressing the central constitutional and moral questions surrounding slavery in the years immediately preceding the Civil War. Douglas defended the doctrine of popular sovereignty arguing that territories should decide the legality of slavery for themselves while Lincoln challenged the compatibility of that doctrine with the Dred Scott decision and emphasized the moral consequences of the institution. Although Douglas retained his Senate seat Lincoln's articulate presentation of the issues drew national attention and positioned him as a major political figure within the emerging Republican Party. Slight chipping to the head of the spine fading to boards and gilt minor damp staining with light foxing and toning consistent with age. Overall good condition. unknown books
