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1941ref. 335816New York: J. J. Little and Ives 1941. Hardcover. 312p 6x8.5 inch red cloth boards green topstaining and deckled textblock with red dust jacket; chipping and toning to jacket otherwise in very good condition. Exiled Jewish author. The first half of his autobiography is his childhood in a Polish-Russian ghetto. Then beginning as a teenager he becomes radicalized and eventually surrounded by the group of individuals behind the Revolution of 1905. J. J. Little and Ives hardcover books
1988ref. 607824Fredonia New York: White Pine Press 1988. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Preface by Edward Butscher. A couple of tiny stains very good or better. Inscribed to artist and wife of poet David Ignatow Rose Ignatow on the title page with a later bookplate noting the book is from the library of David Ignatow. Perchik has been called "the most widely published unknown poet in America. White Pine Press unknown books
1924ref. 1399230New York: Alfred A .Knopf 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xvii 399 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Black spine with red lettering. Boards have fraying to corners scuff marks along the surfaces and mild wear along the edges. Textblock has light age toning minor soiling along the head edges and mild wear along the edges. Contains a "New Borzoi Books" advertisement pamphlet. Shelved in Economics. 1399230. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Alfred A .Knopf hardcover books
1965ref. 1399340New York: W. W. Norton & Company 1965. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo vii 378 pages. In Very Good minus condition lacking the issued dust jacket. Maroon spine with faded gold lettering. Boards have a tear along the head front joint corner adhesive residue along the spine tail bumping to spine head/tail and fore corners and rubbing wear to edges. Textblock has indentation and wear from presumably a paper clip on the front pastedown to the title page adhesive residue to the front free end page age toning and mild wear to edges. Shelved in Economics. 1399340. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. W. W. Norton & Company hardcover books
1946ref. 1399342New York: National Bureau of Economic Research 1946. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo xvi 239 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Tan spine with black lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar cover price uncut "$3.00" has age toning to spine and edges tears along the rear head edge and mild shelving wear. Boards have mild shelving wear. Textblock has an ink signature from a previous owner on the front free end page and age toning to edges. Shelved in Economics. 1399342. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. National Bureau of Economic Research hardcover books
2015ref. 66911NY: Roaring Brook Press 2015. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. Roaring Brook Press hardcover books
1972ref. 523103New Rochelle N. Y.: The Elizabeth Press 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 57pp. Brown printed wrappers. Light fading on spine faint soil mark and short closed tear on rear cover else a near fine copy. From the library of poet David Ignatow inscribed by Perchik to Ignatow in year of publication: "12/72. For Rose Dave & Yaedi whose love and help I am thankful for Love Si". Designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed in Verona Italy by Stamperia Valdonega. The Elizabeth Press hardcover books
1827ref. 33731827. One folding engraved plate. iv 245 pp. lacking the errata leaf & leaf of ads. 8vo cont. grey paste-paper boards lower joint with short split at head & foot. Berlin: T.H. Riemann 1827. First edition and a splendid association copy of this pioneering work which contains one of the most important discoveries in electrical science — “Ohm’s law” — the basis of the present system of electrical measurement. Ohm discovered the unit of resistance in an electrical current. This copy belonged to the “Prince of Mathematicians” — Carl Friedrich Gauss — and has the “Gauss-Bibliothek” stamp on the title. It is quite exciting to be able to link two of the greatest 19th-century scientists through an important book like this. “In the field of electrical measurement Ohm was the great pioneer…Ohm’s great contribution — ‘The Galvanic Chain Mathematically Calculated’ — was to measure the rate of current flow and the effects of resistance on the current. ‘Ohm’s law’ — that the resistance of a given conductor is a constant independent of the voltage applied or the current flowing — was arrived at theoretically by analogy with Fourier’s heat measurements 1800-14.”–Printing & the Mind of Man 289. It is known that the publisher was forced to pulp most of the copies of this book due to lack of sales. A very fine and fresh copy. Lacking the errata leaf it clearly was never bound-in and as usual the leaf of ads. With the stamp of the Royal Observatory at Göttingen on free front endpaper with release stamp facing on the front paste-down endpaper and title. ⧠Dibner Heralds of Science 63. Horblit 81. Sparrow Milestones of Science 154. Wheeler Gift Cat. 835. unknown books
1827ref. 54811827. Folding engraved plate in Vol. IV. Five vols. Large 4to 281 x 200 mm. cont. polished calf sides panelled in blind & gilt spines decorated in blind & gilt a.e.g. Paris: J.B.M. Duprat & others An VII 1798-1825-1827. First edition a magnificent set on large and fine paper complete set with all the supplements. This is the only large and fine paper set I have ever seen on the market. In this monumental and fundamental astronomical work Laplace — the “Newton of France” — codified and developed the theories and achievements of Newton Euler d’Alembert and Lagrange. “Laplace maintained that while all planets revolve round the sun their eccentricities and the inclinations of their orbits to each other will always remain small. He also showed that all these irregularities in movements and positions in the heavens were self-correcting so that the whole solar system appeared to be mechanically stable. He showed that the universe was really a great self-regulating machine and the whole solar system could continue on its existing plan for an immense period of time. This was a long step forward from the Newtonian uncertainties in this respect…Laplace also offered a brilliant explanation of the secular inequalities of the mean motion of the moon about the earth — a problem which Euler and Lagrange had failed to solve…He also investigated the theory of the tides and calculated from them the mass of the moon.”–Printing & the Mind of Man 252. A magnificent set preserved in two boxes. Our set has the first state of the titles of Vols. I and II and all the supplements the supplement in Vol. V issued in 1827 is on regular paper. ⧠Dibner Heralds of Science 14. D.S.B. XV pp. 273-403. En Français dans le Texte 201. Horblit 63. Roberts & Trent Bibliotheca Mechanica pp. 197-98. Sparrow Milestones of Science 125. unknown books
1984ref. 106373Spring Glen:: Simon Jeremiah. Fine. 1984. Paperback. A collection of poems. First edition paperback. Fine in pictorial stapled wraps.; 24 pages . Simon Jeremiah, paperback books
1979ref. 522968New Rochelle N.Y.: The Elizabeth Press 1979. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Printed wrappers. Wraps with just a bit of edgewear a tiny soil mark on the front cover near fine. Label noting that this book is from the library of poet David Ignatow Inscribed to his wife Rose on the half title by the author. From an edition of 250 copies. The Elizabeth Press unknown books
1700ref. 30592Amsterdam: Daniel van den Dalen 1700. First edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Duodecimo. 64 198 8pp. 4 folding copperplate engravings; 203 3pp. Contemporary vellum with blind-stamped vignettes and staggered borders on covers. Red edges. Frontispiece dated 1693 with publisher's reference below engraving. Publisher's devices on title pages. Decorative headpiece and initials. Contains printed notes in margins. Dutch translation of the work "Historia de gli Riti Hebraici History of the Rites of the Hebrews" by the Venetian Rabbi Leone Modene. Presented in four parts covering a wide range of topics including Jewish dress the Sabbath the month of Elul Day of Atonement Tabernacles Hanukkah Purim the Jewish home and marriage and divorce. Illustrated with four folding engravings depicting a wedding ceremony divorce proceedings a scene describing the refusal to marry the brother's widow and a circumcision. Bound with a comparative text of various masses and liturgies customary in Jewish communities by Simonville Richard Simon. Text in Dutch. Binding with light wear along edges and somewhat bent lightly stained and rubbed. Red edges faded. Papers on inside front and back covers partly detached at back with four inch closed tear near foredge. Front free endpapers attached to block at lower respectively upper third of binding. Light foxing on front and endpapers and in margins of block throughout. Images of engravings not affected. Binding in overall good- interior in good to very good condition. Daniel van den Dalen hardcover books
1682ref. 51316London: G. Wells 1682. First edition. Hardcover. Very good-. Two parts small octavo. Collation: A2 star8 B-O8 P2; second series K-2H8 2I4 = 296 leaves. 20 211 1 blank 129-487 1 blankpp. Index of letters bound between the reader's preface and the Life of Morin. Texts in Latin with occasional passages in Hebrew Arabic Syriac and Greek. Contemporary vellum lightly stained with old manuscript label faded and blurred at spine. Occasional light toning and a few oxidation spots else a very good copy with crisp text. First edition of this important collection of letters chiefly between the orientalist and member of the Oratorian order Jean Morin 1591-1659 and Cardinal Francesco Barberini 1597-1679. Occasioned by the attempt of Pope Urban VIII to unite the eastern churches with the Roman Catholic Church they document an important early attempt to address the relations between Rome and the Christian communities of the Levant and Near East. The first two letters from the Samaritan community in Egypt are addressed to Joseph Scaliger and discuss the differences between their luni-solar calendar and that employed by the mainstream Jewish community; originally written in Hebrew the present Latin versions were prepared by Morin. Fourteen letters contain the correspondence between Morin and Pietro Della Valle 1586-1652 on Samaritan matters and Islamic chronology. Purchased from the heirs of the French scholar Amelot de la Houssaye the 94 letters were edited by the pioneering biblical critic Richard Simon 1638-1712 who may be credited with the "first attempt to write a history of the Bible as a piece of literature" Schaff-Herzog. Focusing his analyses on the text versions and commentaries Simon critically discussed the Septuagint and the Vulgate and defended the translation of the Bible into the vernacular. He affirmed the critical value of the Masoretic text while acknowledging the late origin of the Hebrew vocalization system. In his Histoire Critique du Vieux Testament Paris 1678 he also dared to suggest "that Moses cannot be the author of all the books attributed to him." Too radical for its time the work was suppressed and nearly all copies of the first print run were destroyed. A transcription of one of the surviving copies served as the basis of the 1680 Rotterdam edition and an English version published at London in 1682. Simon was expelled from the Oratorians. It thus comes as no surprise to observe that his substantial biography of Morin which precedes the letters "amounts to a diatribe against not only Morin but the entire Oratorian Congregation" Wetzer & Welte. Provenance: Stamp of Collegii Albertini Bonnae at recto and verso of the title; from the library of Old Catholic theologian J. H. Reinkens 1821-96 with his manuscript entry at the front endleaf. References: ESTC R-5020; Ingold Essai de bibl. oratorienne 150; Orme Bibl. Biblica 301; Wetzer & Welte Kirchenlexikon VIII p.1919; Wing M-2764 & S-3795. Full title and imprint: Antiquitates Ecclesiae Orientalis clarissimorum virorum Barbarini Allatii Holstenii Morini Ecchellensis Peirescii à Valle Comberi Buxtorfii Hottingeri &c. Dissertationibus epistolicis enucleatae; nunc ex ipsis autographis editae. Quibus praefixa est Morini Congr. Orat. Paris. PP. Vita. Londini: Prostant apud Geo. Wells ad insigne Solis in Coemeterio D. Pauli. 1682. G. Wells hardcover books
1855ref. 53792Philadelphia: Bicking & Guilbert 1855. First edition. Softcover. Very good. Octavo. 43 1 blankpp; 2 maps 1 folding. Contemporary blue title wrappers lightly chipped at extremities lettered in black. Stain limited to top margin throughout latter half else a very good copy text clean and crisp. First edition of this rare Brief of Title. The Gratz family of merchants and community leaders in Philadelphia was founded by Barnard Gratz 1738-1801. As a young man he emigrated from Germany to London where he was briefly employed as a clerk. Shortly after relocating to Philadelphia in 1754 he went into business as a merchant in the coastal and West Indian trade and formed around 1760 a lasting partnership with his brother Michael who was involved in the Indian and fur trade as well as land speculation. The two brothers helped found the first synagogue in Philadelphia. Two of Michael's sons Simon Gratz 1773-1839 and his brother Hyman 1776-1857 carried on the family business. Apart from his ongoing involvement with the Jewish Congregation Mikveh Israel "Simon was among the founders of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts" Morais and "a director of the Pennsylvania Botanical Garden" Rosenbloom. Includes a three-page extract from the will of Simon Gratz dated February 16 1839 with his instructions for the disposition of the 71 acres of his estate contained in "the four tracts of land mentioned at the beginning of this Brief." As noted in the present brief p. 28 The Farmers and Mechanics Land and Building Association received its Charter of Encorporation on March 17 1852 acquiring by purchase the Willington Estate from Louisa Gratz Edward Gratz David Gratz and Elizabeth Gratz on April 16 1852. Provenance: The business card of Henry Tunison Jr. "Real Estate Agent and Collector of House and Ground Rents. S. E. Corner 18th & Spruce Streets Philadelphia" has been mounted at the bottom of the front wrapper; Mr. Tunison's manuscript entry appears at the top. A rare item not indexed in OCLC which does however locate two copies of an 1871 edition at Hebrew Union College and the University of Michigan; Singerman is also only aware of the 1871 printing noting copies at the American Jewish Historical Society and the Library Company of Philadelphia. References: Cf. Singerman Judaica Americana no. 2256 ed. 1871. For the Graz family see: H.S. Morais The Jews of Philadelphia 1894 p. 25. J.R. Rosenbloom A Biographical Dictionary of Early American Jews 1960 pp. 47-48. Bicking & Guilbert unknown books
1956ref. 41235Baltimore: Simon Kuznets 1956. First edition. Softcover. g. Quarto. 140pp. Gray half cloth wraps with mimeographed block. Preliminary draft of a paper prepared at the request of Professor Louis Finkelstein Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary for possible inclusion in a new edition of a two volume reference work "The Jews" of which Professor Finckelstein is the editor. Simon Kuznets was Professor of Political Economy at the John Hopkins University. Treatise on the economic characteristics in Jewish communities worldwide investigating Jewish participation in traits e.g. agriculture industry sector public service etc. The treatise gives an overview of the dispersion of Jews specifics relating to their minority status as well as the trends among and displacement of Jews during the last century. Wraps with creasing at right corner and sunned along edges. Handwritten name on title page twice and block slightly age-toned along edges. Wraps and interior in overall good condition. Simon Kuznets unknown books
1935ref. 40934Frankfurt: Buchdruckerei David Droller 1935. First edition. Softcover. fair to vg. Inscribed by author to Mr. Julius Jung on front free endpaper. Octavo. xx 80pp. Original printed blue wraps. Elaborate treatise on religious crimes according to Jewish Criminal Law. The treatise with emphasis on Judaism is divided into two parts: a the fundamentals of Jewish criminal law covering the relation of divine and earthly law god's role in crime and punishment as well as the terms of collective guilt; and religious crimes in Jewish Criminal Law; b religious crimes according to Jewish Criminal Law including essence and system of crimes as well as a treatment of the various crimes themselves. Includes extensive bibliography and a brief vita of the author. Text in German. Wraps with heavy wear along edges and spine medium chips creasing and heavily sunned. Front free endpaper creased at bottom right corner. Wraps in overall fair interior in good to very good condition. Buchdruckerei David Droller unknown books
1954ref. 40417London: Ararat Publishing Society 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 682 pp. Blue cloth binding with gold lettering to boards and spine. Contains essays on Jewish life in the Diaspora both the West and the Middle East and Israel Jewish Religion and Philosophy as well as Jewish Literature. Contributions by Klausner Tatakower Ben-Zvi et. al. Edited by the acclaimed Professor of Hebrew Literature and Jewish Philosophy Brandeis Simon Rawidowicz. In Hebrew with English title page and table of contents. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped with rippling. Boards slightly scuffed and rubbed. In overall very good condition. Ararat Publishing Society hardcover books
1961ref. 38704London: Ararat Publishing Society Ltd 1961. Second enlarged edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto. 238 pp. Introduction with Arabic numerals as pagination 524 pp. of text with Hebrew pagination and index. Blue cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Nachman Krochmal was an important figure in the Eastern European Haskalah best known for his “Moreh Nebuhei Ha-Zaman.” As a religious moderate he attempted to reconcile 19th century thought particularly that of Hegel with traditional Judaism. Also included are letters and Krochmal's abridgement of the biblical commentary of Abraham ibn Ezra. Illustrated with four b/w facsimile photographs of Krochmal's home his grave a plate commemorating his death a letter in his handwriting and two documents. Facsimile of his signature from his original stamp on front endpaper. Text in Hebrew. Binding with light wear along edges and spine. Binding in good interior in very good condition. Ararat Publishing Society, Ltd hardcover books
1940ref. 34099New York: Behrman's Jewish Book House 1940. Hardcover. g. Inscribed. 8vo. 117pp. Original brown cloth with blue lettering on cover and spine. Author's inscription on front free endpaper. Head and tail of spine bumped. Overall in good condition. Behrman's Jewish Book House hardcover books
1950ref. 32630Chicago: The College of Jewish Studies 1950. First edition. Softcover. vg. Quarto. 24pp. Original printed wrappers. Remarkable being an address delivered by Simon Rawidowicz professor of Jewish Philosophy and Chairman of the Graduate Department at the opening convocation of The College of Jewish Studies in September 1948. Wrappers slightly darkened. Wraps in overall good interior in very good condition. The College of Jewish Studies unknown books
1949ref. 32914New York: Farlag Matones 1949. Third edition. Hardcover. g. 4to. 112pp. Blue cloth with pasted illustration of a man on horse back confronting a Jew in the woods. Illustrated Yiddish title-page and English title-page. Yiddish novel first published in 1931 about the adventures of a simple beggar named Shmerl who has marvelous luck. Includes linocut illustrations by Aaron Goodelman. The author Solomon Simon is also known for his "Wise Men of Helm." Text in Yiddish. Cover stained. Head of spine slightly bumped. Overall in good condition. Farlag Matones hardcover books
1968ref. 31897London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1968. First edition. Hardcover. g. 8vo. ix 109pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Frontispiece. S. Nowell-Smith covers International Copyright Law from 1837-1901 during the reign of Queen Victoria. Some age wear staining and sunning on dj. Dust jacket in fair book in very good condition. Oxford at the Clarendon Press hardcover books
1902ref. 26542Breslau: S. Schottlaender 1902. First edition. Hardcover. fair. Quarto. V 1 344pp. Full green cloth with handwritten title on spine. Printer's device on title-page. Scarce and fascinating work in which the author reveals how some Rabbis arrived through skepticism at a liberal interpretation of traditional Judaism. Age wear on binding with upper spine partly missing closed tears along joints and corners heavily rubbed. Ex-library copy with remnant of bookplate on inside of front board. Slight age-toning along paper margin. Text in German. Binding in overall poor to fair interior in good condition. S. Schottlaender hardcover books
1974ref. 24863New York: American Jewish Archives and KTAV Publishing House Inc 1974. First English language edition. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. XII 258pp. Original full cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. First English language edition of this rare work written in French in 1788. It is a fascinating account on the history of the colony of Surinam and of the Surinamese Jewry. Binding and interior in near to fine condition. American Jewish Archives and KTAV Publishing House, Inc hardcover books
1952ref. 25762Chicago: The College of Jewish Studies 1952. First edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. 197 1pp in English 122pp in Hebrew. Original cloth with gold lettering on covers and spine. Fascinating work being a series of studies on the history and development of Jewish Chicago. This book contains numerous in-text and full-page charts. Some age wear on binding with lower corners bumped thus affecting pages throughout. Minor soiling on covers. Spine slightly age-toned. Previous owner's stamp on inside of back cover. Text in English and Hebrew. Binding in overall good interior in very good condition. The College of Jewish Studies hardcover books
