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1993rif. 33578New York: Hyperion. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 1562828452 . A bright first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition in alike dust-jacket with minor edgewear; Author's second book and first novel; 8vo; FSA . Hyperion hardcover books
2009rif. 15941New York: Thomas Nelson. As New. 2009. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0785222081 . A stunning first edition/first printing in unread As New condition in pictorial boards. Signed by author boxing superstar and entrepreneur George Foreman on the front end paper; "In an era of bankruptcy and bailouts two-time Heavyweight Champion of the World and record-busting businessman George Foreman steps into the ring to challenge prevailing conceptions of success and achievement and lays out a new way of doing busines - the way of the Knockout Entrepreneur" from the cover ; 8vo ; Signed by Author . Thomas Nelson hardcover books
1977rif. 14705New York: Signet. Very Good. 1977. 1st Paperback Edition; Third Printing. Softcover. 0451074319 . A nice first Paperback edition/later printing in Near Fine condition. Slight overall soiling and chipping along edges of cover but otherwise tight and clean; "With no other help but the easy-to-follow instructions and precise illustrations in this book a few minutes of practice and objects readily at hand you will be able to dazzle delight and baffle family and friends by: reading their minds; making coins appear and disappear; changing one denomination bill into another and many many other fantiastically simple yet startling feats." From the cover ; 12mo . Signet paperback books
1929rif. 1416252Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1929. Hardcover. Octavo xiv 321 pages. In Good minus condition. Spine is yellow with blue paper title label. Boards in yellow cloth blue pastedown title label on front panel; light wear to spine caps and corners toning to spine stain at hinge on front panel. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait and plates photographs. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column K ND-K. 1416252. FP New Rockville Stock. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1938rif. 55044Buenos Aires: M. Gleizer 1938. First Spanish language edition Ex-Library. Softcover. Good condition. Octavo. 182 1pp. Original orange illustrated stiff wraps with red lettering on cover black on spine. Title page with elaborate framing with classical architectural motifs. Translated from the Yiddish. Biblioteca de Autores Judios Library of Jewish Authors. Coralnik was an Ukranian born Jewish-American writer journalist and editor. "Coralnik was a "rara avis rare bird" in Jewish literature. An elegant highly cultured and paradoxical writer. He possessed a captivating and lyrical style that allowed him to treat most complicated topics with remarkable simplicity." Preface. This collection of essays includes writings on Socrates Plato San Pablo Maimonides Leonardo da Vinci Machiavelli Montaigne Spinoza Marx and his Manifesto Disraeli Blasco Ibanez Natan y Saladino among others. Text in Spanish. Wraps with some fraying along edges with library sticker at tail of spine. Upper half of spine loosened from block. Library stamps on verso of half-title and bottom of title page. Previous owner's name inked to center of title page. Library pocket attached to verso of last page. Block lightly age-toned. M. Gleizer unknown books
1996rif. 47238Wien New York: Springer 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Signed and dated by Abraham on dedication page. Laid in note by Cooper Union president John Jay Iselin on official stationary to Milton Glaser. Quarto. 315pp. Original gray cloth with black-stamped sketch on cover black lettering on spine; in matching original dustjacket b/w lettering on spine. Gray endpapers. "The Austrian architect Raimund Abraham born in 1933 in Lienz Tyrol has been living working and teaching in the U.S.A. since 1964. As an exponent of the Viennese avant-garde of the early sixties his work was exhibited together with the works of Hans Hollein and Walter Pichler at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1967." Publisher. Profusely illustrated with color and b/w reproductions of architectural drawings and plans and photographs. Appendices with Abraham's' projects biography prizes and awards bibliography and photo credits at rear. Dustjacket with very light wear along edges. Slight sunning along edges of block not affecting images. Springer hardcover books
2020rif. 52356Leiden: Brill 2020. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. xix 1 633 1pp. Index bibliography and glossary. Text in English Latin and Hebrew. Green buckram lettered in white with red band near top of spine. A fine as new copy. As a result of Abraham Ibn Ezra's increasing popularity after his death there were repeated waves of translation of collections of his Hebrew astrological treatises into Latin and into the emerging European vernaculars. A study of these versions affords us a golden opportunity to shed light on a significant missing link in our knowledge of Ibn Ezra's astrological oeuvre. The present volume offers the first critical edition accompanied by an English translation a commentary and an introductory study of three Latin texts on the astrological doctrines of elections and interrogations written by or attributed to Abraham Ibn Ezra: the Liber electionum the Liber interrogationum and the Tractatus particulares. Publisher Contents: Preface -- Abbreviations -- General Introduction -- Contacts with Christian Scholars in the Twelfth Century -- The Ibn Ezra Renaissance in the Latin West -- Liber Electionum Liber Interrogationum and Tractatus Particulares -- I Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum -- Earlier Research on Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum -- Authorship Links with Ibn Ezra's Work and the Dates of Composition of Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum -- Ibn Ezra's Approach to Elections in Liber Electionum -- Ibn Ezra's Approach to Interrogations in Liber Interrogationum -- The Organization and Contents of Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum -- The Sources of Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum -- Special Features of Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum -- Linguistic Features of Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum -- II Tractatus Particulares -- Earlier Research on Tractatus Particulares -- Manuscripts General Features and Transmission of Tp A and Tp Q -- Structure and General Features of Tp A and Tp Q according to Their Incipits and Explicits -- Contents and Sources of Tp A and Tp Q -- General Features of Tp H -- III Manuscripts and Editorial Principles -- Manuscripts for the Critical Edition of Liber Electionum and Liber Interrogationum -- Witnesses for the Critical Edition of Tractatus Particulares -- Editorial and Translation Principles -- Part One: Liber Electionum : Latin Text and English Translation -- Part Two: Notes to Liber Electionum -- Part Three: Liber Interrogationum : Latin Text and English Translation -- Part Four: Notes to Liber Interrogationum -- Part Five: Tractatus Particulares : Latin Text and English Translation -- Part Six: Notes to Tractatus Particulares -- Part Seven: Appendices -- 1 The Debate about Elections -- 2 The Debate about Interrogations -- 3 Elections -- 4 Interrogations -- 5 Planets Signs and Horoscopic Places -- 6 The Modena Fragments of Mivḥarim III and Sheʼelot III -- 7 Passages of Sheʼelot le-MÄshÄʼallÄh in Tractatus Particulares -- 8 A Section of Sheʼelot le-Talmai and Its Counterpart in Ptolemy's Iudicia -- 9 Significationes Planetarum in Domibus Ascribed to Gergis -- 10 The Account of the Seven Planets in Mishpeṭei ha-Mazzalot -- 11 MÄshÄʼallÄh's Book on Reading Thoughts -- 12 The Section on Elections at the End of Nativitates -- 13 Fragments of Epistola Argafalau ad Alexandrum -- 14 English-Latin Glossary -- 15 Latin-English Index to the English-Latin Glossary -- 16 Authorities and Sources -- 17 Literal Renderings in Liber Electionum of Hebraisms and Hebrew Words/Expressions Employed by Abraham Ibn Ezra -- 18 Literal Renderings in Liber Interrogationum of Hebraisms and Hebrew Words/Expressions Employed by Abraham Ibn Ezra -- 19 Indications of the Horoscopic Places in Liber Electionum Mivḥarim I Mivḥarim II and Epitome -- 20 Indications of the Horoscopic Places in Liber Interrogationum Sheʼelot I Sheʼelot II and Epitome -- 21 Index of Technical Terms and Biographical Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Volume 83 in the Brill series "Etudes sur la Judaisme Medieval." EJM. Also Volume 7 in the Brill series "Abraham Ibn Ezra's Astrological Writings. Brill hardcover books
2019rif. 51627Leiden: Brill 2019. First edition. Octavo. xiv 564pp. Indices & bibliography. Text in English and Latin with some Hebrew. llustrated with color facsimiles of 2 ancient Hebrew text leaves and 14 horoscope diagrams. Green boards lettered in white with a red spine label. A fine as new copy. "Abraham Ibn Ezra was 'reborn' in the Latin West in the last decades of the thirteenth century thanks to a plethora of authored and anonymous Latin translations of his astrological writings. The present volume offers the first critical edition accompanied by an English translation a commentary and an introductory study of Liber nativitatum Book of Nativities and Liber Abraham Iudei de nativitatibus Book on Nativities by Abraham the Jew two astrological treatises in Latin that were written by Abraham Ibn Ezra or attributed to him and whose Hebrew source-text or archetype has not survived. The first is undoubtedly an anonymous Latin translation of the second version of Ibn Ezra's Sefer ha-moladot Book of Nativities whose Hebrew source text is otherwise lost. The second is the most mysterious specimen among the Latin works attributed to Ibn Ezra that have no extant Hebrew counterpart. The present volume shows not only that the Liber Abraham Iudei de nativitatibus underwent a significant metamorphosis over time and was transmitted in four significantly different versions but also that its date of composition is not that previously accepted by modern scholarship."--. Brill unknown books
1649rif. 48861Amsterdam: For Gerrit Willemsz by Adriaan Roest 1649. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Three parts small octavo. A-X8 168 leaves: G5 signed F5; I2 as H2; I4 as H4. 18 293 25 indexpp. Woodcut printer's device at title woodcut lettrines. Contemporary vellum with exposed thongs lightly soiled. Old entry at front pastedown. Occasional faint dampstain at bottom margin else a very good copy with clean text throughout. Second edition of this polemical history by "a strident condemner of the Jews" Sprunger. First published at Rotterdam by Jan van Waesberghe in 1608 the present work is the earliest reaction in print to the presence of Jews and their religion in the Dutch Republic van Rooden. Citing M. Bodian's Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation R. Po-Chia Hsia describes the cultural context: "Coming initially in the 1590s as Portuguese merchants and Christian converts the so-called 'New Christians' Sephardic Jews in fact were welcomed by the Regents of Holland but were strongly opposed by the Reformed clergy. When the conversos reverted to the open practice of Judaism reaction from the Reformed Church was fierce. The predikant Abraham Coster 1575-1620 attacked the Sephardim as an 'unclean people' who sought to build a public synagogue 'in which they can perform their evil and foolish ceremonies and spew forth their gross blasphemies against Christ and his holy gospels as well as their curses against the Christians and Christian authorities'". The present edition was later re-issued the following year with identical collation and pagination but designated as "Den 2den druck van nieuws oversien". References: R. Po-Chia Hsia "Introduction" & P. van Rooden "Jews and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Republic" in: Calvinism and Religious Toleration 3; 137. Sprunger Trumpets from the Tower 81. NNBW 8 320: "Dit werk is een poging om de Amsterdamsche vroedschap te bewegen het bouwen van een nieuwe openbare synagoge te beletten". For Gerrit Willemsz (by Adriaan Roest) hardcover books
1933rif. 49709Warsaw: Instytut Badań Spraw Narodowościowych 1933. First edition. Softcover. vg- to vg. Quarto. 45pp. 1. Grey printed wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. Publisher's device on the title page and front wrapper. Published by the Polish National Affairs Research Institute this study is a comprehensive and detailed survey of the state of Jewish economic cooperatives in Poland from the late 19th centuries until the early 1930s. It was part of a larger effort to study Polish-Jewish socio-economics during the period and includes extensive numerical data tables throughout. The work was issued as the first of two in a series of publicartions on behalf of the Committee for the Examination of the Economic Needs of the Jewish Population in Poland Komitet dla Zbadania Potrzeb Gospodarczych Ludnośći Żydowskiej w Polsce. The preface was written by the committees's chair the Polish economist merchant and financier Adolf Peretz 1855-1933. The final section contains annexes appendices and includes an errata sheet tipped in on the final page. Publisher's advertisements printed on the back cover. Text throughout in Polish. Wrappers light sunned along the edges with minor rubbing and/or creasing to extremities. Light smudge to the front cover. Small closed tear on the title page. Pages throughout sunned with occasional minor creasing to the edges. Wrappers in very good- interior in very good condition overall. Wrappers protected in modern mylar. Instytut Badań Spraw Narodowościowych unknown books
1791rif. 48770Thessaloniki: Mordekhai Nahman ve-David Yisraelig'ah 1791. First edition. Hardcover. g- to vg-. Two volumes large quarto. Vol.1: 2 157. Vol.2: 3 158- 274 1 35. Double-sided leaves. Rebound in modern burgundy mottled faux-leather boards with gilt lettering on the front covers gilt lettering and ruling on the spines. Edges of the book block in red. Title pages bordered with small woodcut motifs. The first printed edition of this commentary on the Talmudic tractate Bava Batra by famed mediaeval Spanish Rabbi Meir Abulafia aka 'The Ramah' c. 1170 - 1244. The work is one of only three surviving parts Tractates Bava Batra Sanhedrin and Kidushin plus the fourth chapter of Tractate Gittin from his larger series of his Talmudic commentaries known as Yad Ramah meaning "Hand of the Ramah" or "The Upraised Hand". The final section of the second volume contains Shiyur Shitah Mekubetset with its own title page a subsequent commentary on the work by Rabbi Bezalel Ashkenazi c. 1520 - c. 1592 and an approbation at the start of the first volume by editor Yosef Elia Halevi. The first volume includes a few illustrated figures and diagrams on leaf 123. Text throughout in Hebrew printed in Rashi script in a two column format. Bindings with minor rubbing bumping and damp staining to the corners. Minor scratches and smudges to the covers. Title page in volume one torn along the left margin. Title page of volume torn along the left margin with no loss of text. Title page of volume 2 with tears worming and staining with some loss of text. Volumes quite clean overall with only minor sporadic staining in the margins. Worming throughout both volumes with some loss of text mostly in the second volume. A few pages throughout the volumes have been repaired with tape. Bindings in very good- interiors in good- to good condition overall. Scarce. Hebrew title: יד רמה Authors: רבי מ×יר הלוי ×בו××œ×¢×¤×™×™× הרמ"ה יוסף ×ליה הלוי בצל×ל בן ××‘×¨×”× ××©×›× ×–×™ Publication: ש××œ×•× ×™×§×™ בדפוס ×”×©×•×ª×¤×™× מרדכי נחמן ודוד ישר×ליג'ה Bibliographic references: Vinograd- Salonica 407. Mordekhai Nahman ve-David Yisraelig'ah hardcover books
1764rif. 48351Amsterdam: Gerard Johan Janson/ Yisrael Mondavi 1764. First edition. Hardcover. vg to vg. Quarto. 149 double-sided leaves 1. Rebound in modern 3/4 dark brown soft leather over red marbled paper boards. Raised bands on the spine. Modern endpapers. Title page with decorative woodcut border. This work contains Rabbinic commentaries on the Haftorot readings including relevant selections from the writings of Rabbi Moshe Alshich 1508-1593 aka "Alshich Hakadosh" Spanish Rabbi Joseph ben Abraham Hayyun d.1497 and Isaac Abravanel. The Hebrew text of commentary is printed throughout in single and dual-column formats in Rashi script surrounding the regular Hebrew text of the biblical verses from the Prophets and the Writings. Errata leaf at the rear. Binding with some light smudges to the covers minor rubbing to corners and some light sticker residue and light scratches to the spine. Interior with some light markings in pencil to the front free endpapers. A few pages throughout with some sporadic minor chipping and/ or water stains along the side margins and edges. No text loss. Book block tight. Binding in very good interior in very good condition overall. Hebrew title: ספר לקוטי מן Authors: ×ליעזר ×ž× ×—× מרקבריט יוסף בן ××‘×¨×”× חיון משה ×לשיך יצחק ××‘×¨×‘× ×ל Publication: דפוס על יד ג'ר×רד יוה×ן ינסון ובבית ישר×ל מונדווי Alternate transliteration: Liqute Man Likkutei Man Likutei Man Bibliographic reference: Vinograd Amsterdam #1839. Gerard Johan Janson/ Yisrael Mondavi hardcover books
1864rif. 48365Jerusalem: Dafus Ha-Gadol ve' Ha-Meshubach Reb Yechiel Brill Reb Michel Ha'Cohen and Rabbi Yoel Moshe Solomon 1864. Second edition. Hardcover. vg- to vg. Small quarto. 4 46 leaves double sided. Bound in black cloth over black pebbled buckram boards. Modenr small heart-shaped white paper label pasted on the front cover. Pages uncut. Title page bordered with detailed wooducts of floral motifs and birds. Small woodcut-engraved illustration of the Temple Mount at the bottom of the verso of the fourth initial leaf. The second edition of Vilna Rabbi Avraham Danzig's 1748-1820 work on Jewish law in the Holy Land. Here published in Jerusalem from one of the earliest Hebrew printing houses during the Old Yeshuv. Rabbi Danzig was and acclaimed posek legal arbiter and this work specifically focuses on the requirments of Jewish law for those living in the Holy Land. It is the continuation of Danzig's vision of Jews retrurning to the land of Israel found in his previous and most famous work Chayei Adam Vilna 1810. This edition was prepared and edited by Yehoshua ben David Yelin 1843-1924 a prominent member of the Palestine's Jewish community during the late Ottoman period and was the first edition of the work published in Palestine following the first edition Vilna 1812. The work was popular and quite useful for Jews in the holy land and went through numerous subsequent editions due to its utility. Text throughout in Hebrew printed in Rashi script in single and dual-column formats. Binding with with some light bumping and rubbing to extremities. Vertical crease on the front cover. Small orange sticker on the interior front cover. Sporadic minor stains or smudges to a few pages throughout. A few ocassional small closed tears and/or creases to pages. Binding in very good- interior in very good condition overall. Hebrew title: ספר שערי צדק: בשני ×©×¢×¨×™× ×™×‘×•×ו בו Author: יהושע בן דוד ילין ××‘×¨×”× בן ×™×—×™×ל מיכל דנציג Publication: דפוס הגדול והמשובח ×”×”×•×§× מחדש ×™×¨×•×©×œ× ×™×¨×•×©×œ×™× Alternate transliterations: Avraham Danzig Sefer Shaʻare Tsedeq Saʻare Zedeq Bibliographic references: Sh. HaLevy no. 104; see: Vinograd Thesaurus of the Books of the Vilna Gaon no. 1565; Beit Eked Sefarim vol.4 #2139. Dafus Ha-Gadol ve' Ha-Meshubach (Reb Yechiel Brill, Reb Michel Ha'Cohen and Rabbi Yoel Moshe Solomon) hardcover books
1943rif. 47538New York: Arbeter Ring National Educational Committee of the Workmen's Circle 1943. First edition. Softcover. g. Small quarto. 4 pages. Printed tan wrappers with dark blue lettering. A scarce Yiddish theater program for the Workmen Circle's Folksbiene theater company's musical production "A Goldfaden Dream". The production in 2 acts 6 scenes was based on the work of pioneering Yiddish theater figure Abraham Goldfaden as well as the writings of Itzik Manger Borekh Fenster and Gershon Einbinder Chaver Paver. The show premiered October 311943 at Malin Theater in New York. The program consists of cast and crew credits as well as a text from director Yacov Rothbaum. Text in Yiddish. Small stain located on the upper right corner of the front cover. Light creasing to pages. Final page with some light scratches and faint pencil markings at the bottom as well as some minor stains. In good condition overall. Scarce. Protected by modern mylar. Yiddish title: ×Ö· ×’×ָלדפ×דען ×—×œ×•× " ×ין מוזיק×ַלישע פ×ָלקס־שפּיל ×ין 2 ×ַקטן ×ון 6 בילדער" Names: לויט טעקסטן פון ×’×ָלדפ×דן מ×× ×’×¢×¨ פענצטער ×ון ××™×™× ×‘×™× ×“×¢×¨ Publisher: × ×צי×× ×לער בילדונגס ק×מיטעט פון ×רבעטער רינג "The National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene" is a professional theater company which produces both Yiddish plays and plays translated into Yiddish founded in New York City's Lower East side in 1915 by the Yiddish cultural organization the Worker's Circle Workmen's Circle. It continues to this day and is considering both the oldest consecutively producing Yiddish theater company in the United States as well as the oldest consecutively producing theater of any kind in the U.S. Arbeter Ring (National Educational Committee of the Workmen's Circle) unknown books
1975rif. 47948Jerusalem: Koren Publishers Jerusalem Ltd 1975. Hardcover. g to fine. Folio 13 3/4 x 8 3/4". Original half burgundy buckram over burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine housed in plain brown paper-covered slipcase with gilt rim to front edges. "First published in 1962 The Koren Tanakh was the first fully Jewish Bible produced in nearly 500 years. Famed Israeli typographer Eliyahu Koren designed the Tanakh including a new typeface which became its trademark. The utmost accuracy of vowels cantillation signs and accentuation combined with its graphic beauty made The Koren Tanakh the standard Bible in synagogues schools and homes. Upon receiving the first copy of the Koren Tanakh the Chairman of the Israeli Knesset announced that all Israel's presidents would be sworn in on it. A small number of copies remain from the first print." From the publishers. Some wear to slipcase rubbed with light chipping and spine edges reinforced with brown library tape. Text in Hebrew. Slipcase in overall good binding and interior in near fine to fine condition. Eliyahu Koren's typeface is based on the designs used by German calligrapher illustrator graphic artist and painter Marcus Michael Douglas Behmer 1879-1958 for the splendid Soncino's edition of the "Hamishah humshe Torah" 1933. Hebrew title: תורה × ×‘×™××™× ×›×ª×•×‘×™×. Koren Publishers Jerusalem Ltd hardcover books
1944rif. 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
1945rif. 46698Geneva: NP 1945. First French-language edition. Softcover. g to vg. Large quarto 11 1/2 x 8 3/8". 1 7 55 1 26 leaves. Original tan printed wrappers protected by modern mylar. Published a few months after the end of WWII this work is a collection of some of the first testimonies of survivors of the extermination camps of Theresienstadt Posen and the nearby Radziwill Fortress and Antonienhof. Each testimony presents a vivid eyewitness account of a nightmarish journey through the horrifying experiences of the Holocaust in Theresienstadt located in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia as well as in Posen and its vicinity territory annexed by Nazi Germany and made part of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia and Reichsgau Wartheland. Originally published in German "L'Extermination des Juifs dans les Camps Allemands" is the first French-language edition of a report compiled by Hans Klee. The introduction was written by Dr. Abraham Silberscheim who prior to the outbreak of World War II was the head of the Jewish cooperative movement in Galicia Poland. Dr. Silberschein played an important role during the war in rescuing Jews from Nazi-occupied Poland through underground activities which he directed from Geneva. Text in Franch. Wrappers with light foxing on front water staining and soiling at upper right corner throughout book block. Stain visible but diminishing from back to front through page 5. Light foxing of title page. Text in French type script. mimeograph Wrappers and interior in overall good- to very good condition. NP unknown books
1923rif. 39395Warsaw: Di Zayt 1923. Second edition. Softcover. fair to vg. Large Octavo. 225pp. Original decorative wrappers with b/w. illustration pasted down on front cover in hardcover cassette with half cloth over decorative paper-covered boards and black lettering on spine. 12 b/w illustrations by Jakob Adler. Abraham Zak 1891-1980 describes the fate of galician population during World War I the sudden change in life the preparations life of and with soldiers and living with war and the Jewish holidays. Zak gives words to the differences and the major change in the way of life of the Jews in Galicia. With his style of essays with dialogues he creates a unique approach to the understanding of the meaning of war which is strongly impacted by the dramatic drawings by Jakob Adler. Text in Yiddish. Cassette with light wear along edges. Wrappers rubbed small piece of cover illustration is missing wear along edges and fraying at head and tail of spine. Foxing at verso of front wrapper and title page. Block tanned 60% of pages are loose but present. Block with some fraying at foredge. Binding in overall very good wrappers and interior in fair to good condition. Di Zayt unknown books
1806rif. 45109London: Printed by L. Alexander 1806. First English language edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Small octavo. 72pp. Tan calf over brown leather boards. Red-brown label with gilt lettering pasted on the spine. This is the first English-language translation of Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi's lengthy lyrical poem. The work decries the futility and vanity of the physical world while praising the benefits of a life of religious and intellectual pursuits. This edition contains the original Hebrew text opposite the English translation. Binding with corners rubbed. Some abrasions and stains to the covers. Interior with sporadic minor water stains throughout. Interior front cover with some bibliographic notes in pencil. Binding in good interior in overall very good condition. Hebrew title: בחינות ×¢×•×œ× ידעיה הפניני Alternate transliteration: Behinot Olam Bibliographic references: ZEDNER p.315 VINOGRAD p.367 Rabbi Tobias Goodman -1824 was a German-born influential member of the British Jewish community at the time and was among the first Rabbis to regularly give sermons in English. His 1817 sermon on the death of Princess Charlotte of Wales is believed to be the earliest known printed sermon by a Rabbi in English. Printed by L. Alexander hardcover books
rif. 43956Amsterdam: David Fereira y Mosseh Moreno Henriques/ David de Crasto Tartaz David de Castro Tartas 5423. Hardcover. g- to g. Duodecimo. 6.5x4.5". 479pp. Original brown calf boards with gilt-stamped motifs and raised bands on the spine. Blue ribbon marker. Edges of the book block in red. Marbled endpapers. The title page is illustrated with copper plate engravings in the form of small vignettes of biblical scenes surrounding the text. This is 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. This edition of the Machzor was published by David Fereira and Mosseh Moreno Henriques to serve members of the then sizable Sephardic Jewish community in Amsterdam. A significant portion of the community would have been ex-Marranos Jews who had outwardly converted to Catholicism during the inquisition in Spain who then immigrated and were able to reestablished 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 "Keter Malkhut" p.254-289. The title page is illustrated with scenes from the biblical stories of King David Saul and Goliath and contain small captions underneath with corresponding biblical passages in Spanish. There are a number of pagination printing errors including: p.45-46 are misprinted as 54 and 36 p.264 is misprinted as 164. p.450 is misprinted as 350 p.414 is misprinted as 144. Like in the case of the earlier 1652 edition of the work pages 305-352 are misprinted as "321-368" but in this copy the leaf containing p. 353-354 directly following "368" seems to be missing. Overall this edition follows very closely the 1652 edition of the same work in terms of pagination content and organization. Includes large initials throughout the text. All text in Spanish. Binding with rubbing scratches and abrasions to the covers spine and extremities. Some chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Interior front covers with some starting and the loosening of the endpapers. Title page with starting light creases stains and and light chipping on the top left corner resulting in slight loss of image. Some light water staining along the top edge of the pages with some other sporadic light staining throughout. Page 365 torn along the side edge with no loss of text. Starting at a number of pages throughout the book. Binding in good- interior in good condition overall. Binding protected with modern mylar. David ben Abraham de Castro 1630-1698 was a French-born Portuguese Jewish printer/publisher in Amsterdam. Between 1662 and 1701 his press printed the "Gazeta de Amsterdam" a newspaper for the exiled Sephardic Jewish community in Amsterdam. He started his printing career as a typesetter at the printing house of Menasseh Ben Israel a printer and leading Rabbi in community who printed the earliest Amsterdam edition of this work in 1630. Castro started his own business in 1662 making this edition among his earliest publications. References: RODRIGUEZ 1781 p. 643 KAYSERLING 1890 p. 62 PALAU1923 202416 PEETERS1933 1038. David Fereira y Mosseh Moreno Henriques/ David de Crasto Tartaz (David de Castro Tartas) hardcover books
1935rif. 42757Paris: Arts et Métiers Graphiques 1935. First edition. Softcover. vg. Folio 12 1/4 x 10". 14pp Text 120pp Plates 121-139 1pp Text and advertisement. Original spiral bound decorative wrappers by Pierre Boucher. "Photographie" was an annual special issue of the magazine "Arts et Métiers Graphiques" entirely dedicated to modern photography and which published the work of the leading photographers and photographic agencies of the period. This 1936 edition contains 120 striking photographs reproduced in heliogravure and taken by the following photographers: Gaston Paris; George Hurrel; John Somerset Murray; Marcel Bovis; Mitsutaro Fuku; Kardas; Maurice Tabard; Harry Meerson; Herbert List; Hein Gorny; Cecil Beaton; Pierre Boucher; Thérèse Le Prat; George Platt Lynes; Erwin Blumenfeld; Willy Prager; Marianne Breslauer; Lucien Vogel; Bill Brandt; Chin San Long Lang Jingshan and many others. Minor shelf wear. Tip of lower front corner slightly bumped thus slightly affecting pages throughout. Text and captions in French. Wrappers in overall good to very good interior in very good condition. Arts et Métiers Graphiques unknown books
1873rif. 41051New York: Goodspeed's Publishing House 1873. First edition. Hardcover. g- to g. 8vo. vii 205pp. Brown cloth with blind-stamped title on cover and gilt lettering on spine. Christian missionary work by the Jewish convert Abraham Jaeger. Includes the text of a published letter responding to Rabbi Isaac M. Wise. Binding with some smudging and staining to front and back covers. Head and tail of spine bumped and slightly frayed. Bottom front hinge of spine slightly loose. Light rubbing to some corners and along edges. Interior with sporadic light foxing throughout. Binding in overall good- interior in good condition. Singerman #2397. Goodspeed's Publishing House hardcover books
1923rif. 31840Nuremberg: J. Bulka 1923. First edition. Hardcover. g. 4to. 816pp. 2 85pp. 1. Quarter brown cloth over brown paper boards with black lettering and design on spine. Top edge red. Hebrew and German title-pages. Machsor Vitry by R. Simcha of Vitry a student of the 11th century Jewish scholar R. Shlomo Yitzhaki. Includes a collection of piyut poems. Text in Hebrew. Wear to spine; tail of spine split but still holding. Edges and corners rubbed. Overall in good condition. J. Bulka hardcover books
1969rif. 22379England: Gress International Publishers LTD 1969. Reprint. vg. 4to. 102 leaves. Beige hard cover. Title of work and name of author in gold lettering on front cover and on spine. Book is a philosophical work on the principal teachings in Judaism. No damage to book or pages. No title page. Text in Hebrew written in the Rashi font. Book is in fine condition. On Derekh Emunah source: EJ Written by Abraham ben Shem Tov Bibago 15 century in 1521 in Spain Derekh Emunah is a philosophical work on the major tenets of Judaism. The work is divided into three sections. The first section discusses the acts of God His knowledge and divine providence. The second section discusses faith and reason sin and related topics. The third section discusses the principals of Judaism miracles and creation. Derekh Emunah was first printed in Constantinople in 521. This edition is a 1969 facsimile of the 1521 manuscript from the Royal Library in Copenhagen. Gress International Publishers, LTD unknown books
1930rif. 13486Piatrkrow: David Kappelman 1930. Second revised. Hardcover. vg. Folio. 286pp. Three -quarter cloth over gilt stamped black paper covered boards. Illustrated title page in red and black lettering. Collection of insights regarding the laws of the Jewish Sabbath Shabbat. The author Abraham Bornstein was one of the great Chasidic Masters of the 19th Century. The son-in-law of the Kotzker Rebbe he was also known as the "Avnei Nezer." More on him: See below This volume is a revision of the first edition with additions and corrections by the author and his only son Shmuel.aka Shem MiShmuel an eminent Rebbe and scholar in his own right. Boards are somewhat rubbed and worn on the edges. Front cover board with title page starting to hinge. Interior in very good condition. In Hebrew. Overall very good condition. On the author Source: Public Domain: Rabbi Abraham Bornstein also known as Avraham Bornsztajn Abraham ben Ze'ev Nachum Bornstein Reb Avraham Borensztejn was born in Biala Poland in 1839 and died on March 20 1910 in Sochaczew. He was a Hasidic rabbi known as the "Tzadik of Sochachov" or 'Cadyk z Sochaczewa' in Polish. He the son of a rabbi. When he graduated yeshiva became a rabbi in Parczew Kroniewice Nasielsk and from 1883 in Sochaczew. He founded there Hassidic synagogues and yeshivas. He is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Sochaczew where a "ohel" burial vault was built. Following his passing his position was filled by his son Rabbi Samuel Bornstein 1856-1926 who edited Shem Mi-Shmuel. Bet Eked vol. 1 p. 17 item# 404. David Kappelman hardcover books
