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London: Blackie & Son Limited, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. g. 8vo. x. 70pp. Orange cloth with brown title to cover and spine. Head and tail of spine and corners rubbed. Minor staining and discoloration to boards. Front endpaper missing. Small stains to pages 49, 50 and 51 not affecting text or plates. A book written during W.W.II. making fun of Hitler. Illustrated with b/w drawings. Overall in good condition.

Regensburg: Gustav Bosse, 1935. 21. bis 25. Auflage. Hardcover. vg. Sm. 8vo. 93,[3],pp. Gold-decorated blue cloth in original illustrated dust jacket. Minor discoloration to boards. Chipping and minor staining to parts of dj. Frontispiece of author. Contents: Die Musik im dritten Reich, Vom Neubau deutscher musikalischer Kultur, Wagners "Meistersinger" und unsere Zeit, Nationalismus, Internationalismus und Musik, Kultur und Gemeinschaft. Lectures and essays by Peter Raabe on music in the Third Reich. Text in Gothic. Volume 48 of the series "Von deutscher Musik." Dj in good, book in very good condition.

Jerusalem: Sinai, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. g. 8vo. 63pp. Leatherette padded cover with engraved brass plate with the image of the city of Jerusalem on front cover and floral design. Red edges. Decorative endpapers. Illustrated Haggadah in the style of the Israeli Bezalel school, which was popular in the early 20th century. Hebrew text and English translation. Includes 4 tipped in color illustrations of Jerusalem, Rachel's Tomb, the Tower of David and the Wailing Wall. There are also numerous b/w charcoal illustrations including magnificent sequences depicting the Ten Plagues and the "Had Gadya" poem. Text in Hebrew and English. Head and tail of spine rubbed. Slight rippling to endpapers. Overall in good condition. Yaari #2457.

Tel Aviv: Sinai/ Miriam Publishing House, 1948. Later edition. Hardcover. Very good- to fine condition. Small oblong quarto. Unpaginated (24pp.). Raised brown leatherette boards with blind-stamped motifs, gilt lettering and engraved metal plate in repose, featuring the tower of David, on front cover. Beautiful color pictures transport the reader into the story. Our copy is in English and Hebrew. Color illustrated frontispiece depicting characters from the story of Esther. Illustrated throughout with 11 tipped-in color reproductions of artwork by Bezalel artist Zeev Raban. The final page contains the stamp of the Miriam Publishing House. Binding with light wear at corners. Light age toning of pages, not affecting tipped-in plates. Binding in very good-, interior in very good+, plates tipped-in plates in fine condition overall. Hebrew title: מגלת אסתר, זאב רבן.

Jerusalem: Shulamit, 1948. Reprint. Hardcover. vg to vg+. Folio. Unpaginated (28 double-sided Leaves). Custom full orange morocco binding with debossed blind-stamped insignia and lettering on the front cover, gilt lettering on the spine. Sumptuous gold silk moire endpapers. A later edition of this work from acclaimed Israeli artist Zee'v Raban (1890-1970), illustrating the biblical book Song of Songs. Originally issued in 1923, and produced at the famous Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem, the work displays Raban's noted and evocative style combining art nouveau and orientalist elements. The work is comprised of a total of 26 tipped-in reproductions after color images by Raban showing scenes from the biblical text, all finely accented in gold and silver and mounted on heavy stock paper. The facing pages of each plate contain the biblical text in brown, with detailed and elaborate decorative borders. All text in Hebrew. A luxurious copy of a gorgeous work from one of the pioneering figures of Israeli… Read More

Jerusalem: The Song of Songs" Publishing Co, 1930. Third edition. Hardcover. Very good- condition. Folio. Unpaginated; (3) 26 (1) leaves. Raised brown leatherette boards with blind-stamped decorative floral motifs, gilt lettering and framing of engraved metal plate in repose, featuring a Theodor Herzl portrait on front cover. Publisher's device in brown on fly leaf. Decorative half-titles. Illustrated title page in Hebrew tipped in, with illustrated title page in German printed to facing page. Handsome edition of the "Song of Solomon", dedicated to Boris Schatz, the founder of the Bezalel school in Jerusalem, and illustrated with twenty-six tipped-in reproductions of paintings in rich, vibrant colors by Ze'ev Raban. Each illustration with Hebrew text, facing page with calligraphed German text within pictorial borders. Text in Hebrew and English. Very light wear along edges. Block age-toned, not affecting images.

Jerusalem: Hasefer, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. vg to vg+. Folio. Unpaginated (28 double-sided leaves). Green cloth boards with elaborate designs, illustrations and lettering in gilt and silver. Custom full orange morocco binding with debossed blind-stamped insignia and lettering on the front cover, gilt lettering on the spine. Sumptuous gilt, silver and blue illustrated endpapers. A first edition in English and Hebrew of this work from acclaimed Israeli artist Zee'v Raban (1890-1970), illustrating the biblical book Song of Songs. The book was produced at the famous Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem were Raban taught and worked, and displays his noted and evocative style combining art nouveau and orientalist elements. The work is comprised of a total of 26 tipped-in reproductions after color images by Raban showing scenes from the biblical text, all finely accented in gold and silver and mounted on heavy stock paper. The images are all protected with tissue guards, each stamped with the published… Read More

Aix-en-Provence: Edisud / Le Fennec, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio. 199, [1]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over black cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Photo-illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with hundreds of b/w and color photographic reproductions, the striking collection of desert jewels featured in this book illuminates the diversity and beauty of traditional North African jewelry design. The beautiful jewelry pieces reflect also the richness of the cultures of Morocco. Dust-jacket, binding and interior in very good condition.

New York: Bloch, 1950. First edition thus. Hardcover. vg. Octavo. xviii, 128pp. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine. Illustrated with 6 b/w drawings of clothing, synagogues and map of 1564 Poland and Lithuania. Translated from the Arabic with introduction by Mesch, preface by Dr. Solomon Grayzel. Very light rubbing on spine. Very light age-toning on interior. Binding and interior in overall very good condition.

Warsaw: Ahi'asaf, 1912. fair. 4to. 584pp. 526pp. 552pp. 597pp. 122pp. Original half-leather over black cloth. Dictionary of terms found in rabbinic literature with quotes from source material. Hebrew and Aramaic words are translated into Russian and Yiddish. The first volume was published in 1884. Samuel Joseph Fuenn was a moderate Russian maskil, who worked for the Czarist government as a professor at the rabbinical school of Vilna and later as the superintendent of Jewish public schools. Fuenn did this as a means of advancing his own Enlightenment agenda of reforming Jewish education. Fuenn's dictionary was the first to cover the Bible, Talmud as well as medieval poetry and philosophy. He was heavily influenced by the grammatical work of ibn Janah and R. David Kimhi. In addition to his lexicographical work, Fuenn authored the first Hebrew literary journal, "ha-Karmel," and an encyclopedia of rabbinic personalities, "Keneset Yisroel." Saul Phinehas Rabbinowitz was a student of R. Israel Salanter… Read More

London: Oxford University Press, 1931. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. 142pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustration to spine. Ex libris Arthur S. Wolpe. Age wear. In English. Very good condition.

London: Printed by J. Hughs for J. Brindley and C. Corbett, 1737. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. 12mo (6 1/2 x 4"). Volume I: [i]-xxii + iii-viii + [i]-cxxxiv-[135]-384pp. The second pagination (iii-viii) is the table of contents of Volume II. Copper engraved frontispiece portrait of Rabelais and two fold-out copper engravings (between pp. xvi-xvii, and pp. 252-253); Volume II: [2], v-x + [11]-251pp. Fold-out copper engraved frontispiece, full page engraving (facing page 188), fold-out plate at page 217; Volume III: [i-iv] + v-xx + [21]-22 + 3-367 + [5]pp (Index). Fold-out copper engravings facing pages 108, 191 & 229 (last plate missing its folded part); Volume IV: [i-v] + vi-xc + [1]-281 + [1] (blank) + [8] (Contents) + [4]pp (Adverts). Fold-out engraved frontispiece, fold-out plate facing page xxix, and full copper plate facing page 49; Volume V: [i]-lxiv + [1]-267 + [5]pp (Contents). Fold-out plates facing pages 41 and154, and full-page plate facing page 149. On page 189 features the text of… Read More

Paris: Potey, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/4"). [6], xxiii, [1], 466pp (Vol. 1), [4], viii, [2], 452pp (Vol. 2). Original quarter calf over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and ruling to spines. Marbled endpapers. Armories of Charles-René-Amédée de Contamine* on inside of each front cover. Ribbon marker in each volume. Complete two-volume set of Rabelleau's monumental history of the Hebrews from the creation of the world to the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus in A.D. 70. Moderate rubbing and age-toning along edges of bindings. Clear water-staining along upper margin of pages 201-292 in first volume (not affecting lettering), and at the upper part of the first 98 pages in second volume. Minor and sporadic foxing throughout. Text in French. Bindings in overall good- to good, interior in good to very good condition. * Charles-René-Amédée de Contamine (1824-1888). Graduated from the prestigious École Polytechnique; Participated at the French… Read More

Paris: Librairie Garnier Frères, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Folio (12 x 9 1/2"). Unpaginated. [48]pp. Original illustrated paper covered boards rebacked in modern brown cloth. Illustrated title page. First edition of this delightful story of Placid the dog and Gideon the duck, by French illustrator Benjamin Rabier (1864-1939), a precursor of animal comics who became famous for creating La vache qui rit (the Laughing Cow). Some rubing along edges of covers. Minor age-toning and sporadic foxing along paper margin. Text in French. Binding in overall good, interior in good+ to very good condition.

Great Britain: Oxford University Press, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. vg. ASIN: B00102K1QA. 8vo. xv, 135pp. Original black cloth with gold lettering, border and Oxford emblem on spine in original printed price clipped dust jacket. Based on lectures given at the University of Durham as part of the Jacobson Lectureship in Jewish Studies and the Institute of Jewish Studies in Manchester on the beliefs of the Dead Sea Sect of Qumran. Covers such topics as private property, views on the opposition, and halakhah (Jewish Law). In the final chapter the author makes the case that the Dead Sea Sect survived until the coming of Islam in the 7th century. Head and tail of spine slightly worn. Several pages in the back slightly dog-eared. Minor shelf wear to dj. Overall in very good condition.

Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1962. Hardcover. fair to vg. Quarto. 149(62), 170(13), 232(12),134, 4 plates,(8), 137(12)pp. with page numbers in parenthesis printed in Hebrew. Original dustjackets (Vols. II and IV) over tan cloth with gilt lettering on printed red label of spine. Frontispiece photograph in Vol. III. Collection on essays for the Hebrew University Bible Project with contributions by prominent scholars in the field, e.g. S. Talmon, M. Goshen-Gottstein, D. Flusser, B. Mazar, R. Weiss, and many others; some of them with frequent contributions. Illustrated with b/w facsimile reproductions of original texts in each volume. Vol. II published in 1962, vol. III, 1963, vol. IV, 1964, vol. VI, 1968, and vol. VII, 1969. Text in English and Hebrew. Djs with some wear, small chips, tears, small circular stickers on spine, and some staining on vol. II. Bindings lightly rubbed with foxing on vol. VII. Few pencil markings and notes in vols. VI and VII, few inked notes in vol.… Read More

New York: American Zionist Emergency Council, 1945. Softcover. vg. Sm 8vo. 84pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Light creasing and some rubbing along spine. A history of the Jewish units in the African campaign 1941-1943. Includes a glossary of Hebrew terms. Overall very good.

New York: Hermon Press, 1972. Second edition. Hardcover. fair. 8vo. 268pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed price-clipped dust jacket. Comprehensive account by L. Rabinowitz on the social and economical life of medieval French Jewry. Covered are Jewish social organizations, family, religion, educational system and use of leisure. Some rippling on cloth near bottom corner of front board. Some age wear, creasing and staining on dj. Dust jacket and binding in good-, interior in very good condition.

London: Edward Goldston, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. g. 8vo. 184pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. A scholarly work on medieval Jewish communal and economic policy, specifically analyzing the concept of "herem hayyishub," an excommunication ban on settlement. This policy worked not just to allow Jewish communities to stop unwanted Jews from moving in, but also as a form of protectionism as Jews used this policy to keep out other Jews from acting as competition. Tiny closed tear at head of spine. Tail of spine rubbed. Corners scuffed. Remains of library sticker on spine. Front endpaper marked. Overall in good condition.

Vilna, 1876. Hardcover. g. Ex-library copy. 8vo. 306pp. Library three-quarter cloth over paper board binding. Title-pages in Hebrew, Russian and German. Late 19th century chemistry textbook in Hebrew. Includes numerous b/w illustrations of instruments and experiments. This work exemplifies the golden age of the Russian Haskalah under Czar Alexander II, which strove to produce an enlightened Jewish culture, in science and literature, to help Jews enter a modern world that seemed to be on course to granting Jews equal rights on their own terms. Text in Hebrew. Boards bowed. Corners rubbed. Some staining to interior leaves. Overall in good- condition.